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Warming up for WORLD HAND HYGIENE DAY – 05 MAY 2025

Warming up for WORLD HAND HYGIENE DAY – 05 MAY 2025

05/05/2025

World Hand Hygiene Day is a global healthcare event held annually on 5 May. This campaign aims to progress the goal of maintaining a global profile on the importance of hand hygiene in health care and to ‘bring people together’ in support of hand hygiene improvement globally.

Refer to WHO, the Slogan of the 2025 hand hygiene campaign 

“It might be gloves. It's always hand hygiene.”  

Objectives of World Hand Hygiene Day 2025:  

  1. Promote optimal hand hygiene practices (using the appropriate technique and according to the WHO 5 Moments) and the times for appropriate glove use within the health care workflow.

  2. Promote inclusion of hand hygiene within national IPC strategies, as well as standard operating procedures (SOPs) at facility level, according to the recommendations of the WHO global action plan and monitoring framework 2024-2030.

  3. Raise awareness of the environmental and climate impact of gloves on waste generation and management, especially when used unnecessarily.

 

IT MIGHT BE GLOVES. IT'S ALWAYS HAND HYGIENE 

Medical gloves are used in healthcare and are defined as disposable gloves used during medical procedures. These gloves can get contaminated as easily as bare hands and do not protect 100%. When worn, gloves should be removed, for example, after touching a patient and hand hygiene performed immediately as per the WHO 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene.

Regardless of whether gloves are worn, hand hygiene - at the right times and in the right way is still one of the most important measures to protect patients and health workers in healthcare. By 2026, hand hygiene compliance monitoring and feedback should be established as a key national indicator, at the very least in all reference hospitals. Currently 68% of countries report they are doing this.

Excessive glove use contributes significantly to the volume of health care waste. Appropriate glove use and hand hygiene can help minimize this waste. Using gloves when not indicated wastes resources and does not necessarily reduce transmission of germs. Between February and August 2020, 3 billion items of personal protective equipment were used (that is known), resulting in 591 tonnes of waste per day. The greatest contribution came from gloves.

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