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October 15, 2025

This Global Handwashing Day , we're excited to share a tutorial on best handwashing practices from field officers Joyce and Patience, along with students from Emusala Primary School in Western Kenya.

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15 October
Academics
Accelerate action to improve hand hygiene and infection prevention and control at point of care
Accelerate action together to prevent infections and antimicrobial resistance in health care
Antimicrobial resistance
Apply a palmful of the product in a cupped hand
Avoid diseases that are common
Backs of fingers to opposite palm with fingers interlocked
Behavior reinforcement
Best Handwashing Practices

Call to action
campaign
Children's Health
collective responsibility
Communicable diseases
covering all surfaces
COVID mitigation measures
Cross-sectoral collaboration
Diarrhea
Did Covid shutdowns stunt kids' immune systems?
Distribute soap and water treatment tablets
Domestic Settings
Donors
Educational Institutions
Employees
Empower communities of actors in health care
Enabling technologies are a critical determinant for hand hygiene behavior.
Encourage children to tell their parents or teachers as soon as possible if they notice any symptoms
Ensure Clean Hands are Within Reach.
Ensure lasting behavior change
Ensure that families receive comprehensive health support
Exposed to germs
Focusing on water for drinking and hygiene
Global Handwashing Day
Global Handwashing Partnership
Governments
Hand hygiene
Hand hygiene accessibility
Hand hygiene behavior
Hand hygiene evidence gaps
Hand hygiene hypothesis
Hand hygiene products supply chains
Hand Hygiene Research Summary
hand sanitiser
Handwash
Hard-to-reach communities
Health care-associated infections (HAIs)
Health Policy-making
Health workers
Health-related motivators
Healthcare Facilities
Healthcare system investments
Humanitarian settings
Hygiene & Sanitation
IFRC
Increase awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap.
Install water storage tanks
Institutional Actors
International Food Policy Research Institute's (IFPRI)
Lead the way for clean hands
Making handwashing a fun and memorable activity for all ages
Minimizing infections risks
Mother's Health
National hand hygiene efforts
National response and resilience plans
nurses
Panel Discussions
Primary schools
Private sector and businesses
Proper handwashing
Provide safe drinking water through water trucking
Public spaces
Recognize handwashing as essential to health and dignity in every community
Reinforce hand hygiene education
Respiratory infections
Rub hands palm to palm
Safeguard public health
Save lives- Clean Your Hands
Setting up emergency toilets
stakeholders
Suppliers
Surgical site infection prevention in the primary health care setting
Take action
Talk about the ways to detect signs of Mpox and Ebola with students
The Water project
UN-Water
UNICEF
Volunteers
Webinars
When do you need to clean your hands?
Why are clean hand still important?
World Health Organization (WHO)

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