Prioritize integrating and budgeting for hand hygiene in national response and resilience plans, as well as long-term development strategies.
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Strengthen national hand hygiene efforts and measuring hand hygiene progress.
This Global Handwashing Day , governments should lead the way for clean hands , strengthening national hand hygiene efforts and measuring hand hygiene progress , to ensure Clean Hands are Within Reach .
What are you doing to ensure Clean Hands are Within Reach?
Join us on Wednesday, October 11th, to hear what others are doing to ensure hand hygiene progress at the global, national, and individual levels. 2023 Global handwashing day annual event. WHEN: October 11th, 2023. TIME: 8:00 AM EDT - 12:00 1:30 pm UTC. EVENT TYPE: hybrid event. Register to participate! Follow the conversation with the hashtags: #CleanHandsareWithinReach .
Hand Hygiene Impacts.
Studies published in 2022 cover various topics on hand hygiene impact. Most studies focus on assessing the effectiveness of different interventions in preventing and controlling diseases such as diarrheal disease, healthcare-associated infections, and parasitic infections. Several studies evaluated the effectiveness of hand hygiene practices in preventing or controlling diseases among children . A systematic review and meta-analysis by Wolf et al. (2022) reviewed and synthesized evidence on the effectiveness of interventions to improve drinking water, sanitation, and handwashing with soap on the risk of diarrheal disease in children in low- and middle-income settings. The study found that interventions that promoted hand hygiene were effective in reducing the risk of diarrheal disease among children under 5 years old by 30%. Findings from this study are consistent with previous studies that concluded handwashing with soap can reduce the risk of endemic diarrhea up to 30 to 48%....