On Global Handwashing Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF launched the first global guidelines for hand hygiene in community settings — a major step forward to promoting better public ...

The World Health Organization and UNICEF have developed global guidelines for hand hygiene in community settings.  While the WHO has long ...

Evidence-based recommendations for homes, schools and public spaces to improve public health and reduce preventable ...

The challenge of improving hand hygiene compliance in hospitals to prevent healthcare-associated infections is not confined to within the borders of the United States. Hospitals in countries all over ...

The guidelines were developed through a collaborative effort led by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Association for Professionals in Infection ...

Everyone knows how to wash their hands. Warm water, lots of soap, a vigorous and thorough scrubbing, a good drying. Moms pound it into us from the time we're toddlers. Why, then, don't people follow ...

One of the front-line defenses individuals have against the spread of the coronavirus can feel decidedly low-tech: hand-washing. In fact, it was 19th-century Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis who, ...

The skin on your hands might be dry or even cracked from the new hand-washing and sanitizing methods to hopefully keep the coronavirus at bay. The WHO has hand-washing guidelines if you’re wondering ...

On Global Handwashing Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF launched the first global guidelines for hand ...