Clean Care is Safer Care

Information centre

Tools & resources for health-care workers

A suite of tools has been developed to support health-care facilities to prepare effective action plans to improve hand hygiene, regardless of their starting point.

Locally adapted tools

Institutions, facilities and organizations are encouraged to adapt the WHO hand hygiene tools and resources to their own needs. Here you can find examples of locally adapted tools.

Media materials

The First Challenge has organised numerous high-level events that have received coverage in the global media. A selection of media advisories, press releases and speeches are available.

Articles written by the First Challenge team

The team has had a vast number of articles published in academic journals and other publications since 2005.

Abstracts accepted as posters or oral presentations

The importance of hand hygiene has been highlighted by the First Challenge team and our collaborators, through numerous presentations at conferences worldwide.

Reports from meetings and visits

The team has undertaken numerous visits to pilot sites and hosted a range of meetings, both at WHO and abroad.

News archive

Items previously published on the First Challenge website.

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

Contact us

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