Clean Care is Safer Care

2006 events

Inauguration of the Global Patient Safety Challenge "Clean Care is Safer Care"

4 December 2006 - Muscat, Oman

Launch of the Global Patient Safety Challenge"Clean Care is Safer Care" as part of the 6th Malta Medical School Conference

30th November 2006 -Valletta, Malta

ESCMID-SHEA Training Course in Hospital Epidemiology 2006

25–28 November 2006 - Baden/Vienna, Austria

Launch of the Global Patient Safety Challenge in Spain

15 November 2006 - Madrid, Spain

A Year of Cleaner and Safer Care

10 November 2006 - Geneva, Switzerland

Canada participates in the Global Patient Safety Challenge 2005-2006

20 October 2006 - Vancouver, Canada

Sixth International Conference of the Hospital Infection Society, HIS 2006

15-18 October 2006 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands

The 46th annual Interscience on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy-ICAAC

27-30 September 2006 - San Francisco , USA

Infection Control

17-19 September 2006 - Dubai, UAE

Launch of the Global Patient Safety Challenge 2005-2006

17 September 2006 - Dubai, UAE

Inauguration of the Global Patient Safety Challenge 2005-2006 "Clean Care is Safer Care"

17 September 2006 - Dhaka, Bangladesh

International Patient Safety Summit (IPPS)

16-18 September 2006 - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Patient Safety in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Education: Have we got it Right?

ASME Annual Scientific Meeting 2006
6-8 September 2006 - The University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

First Meeting of the Expert Working Group to Establish Priority Areas for Research on Patient Safety

13-14 July 2006 - Geneva, Switzerland

India affirms its commitment to addressing health care-associated infection

14 July 2006 - New Delhi, India

7th Annual Congress of the International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC)

3-5 July, 2006 - Stellenbosch, South Africa

Inauguration of the Global Patient Safety Challenge 2005-2006

3 July 2006 - Moscow, Russia

Patient Safety Conference and inauguration of the Global Patient Safety Challenge 2005-2006: Clean Care is Safer Care

6 June 2006 - Ljubljana, Slovenia

Meeting on the Affirmation of Malaysia's Commitment to the WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge 2006

15 May 2006 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Healthcare Associated Infection 2006

30-31 March 2006 - London, UK

Global Patient Safety Challenge special event at the "Changing the culture" conference

13 March 2006 - Belfast, Ireland

The World Alliance for Patient Safety: addressing health care-associated infection

WHO Lyon Office for National Epidemic Preparedness and Response
26 January 2006 - Lyon, France

Key documents

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WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care (revised Aug 2009)

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Guide to implementation of the WHO multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy (revised Aug 2009)

Videos and podcasts

Contact us

For more information about Clean Care is Safer Care, please contact the team at savelives@who.int.