Clean Care is Safer Care: a worldwide priority.

The First Global Patient Safety Challenge "Clean Care is Safer Care": from launch to current progress and achievements.

Healthcare-associated infection is a major safety issue affecting the quality of care of hundreds of millions of patients every year in both developed and developing countries. To meet the goal of ensuring patient safety across healthcare settings around the globe, the World Health Organization launched the World Alliance for Patient Safety in October 2004. Healthcare-associated infections were...

Clean care is safer care: from a glonal challenge to a WHO patient safety programme

Methods Efforts have focused on hand hygiene improvement using a three-pronged approach: 1) raising awareness of HCAI among health professionals and solutions for its prevention; 2) securing political commitment at governmental level to make HCAI prevention a health priority; 3) developing a range of technical tools to support hand hygiene programmes at the facility level, according to the WHO ...

WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care First Global Patient Safety Challenge Clean Care is Safer Care WHO GUIDELINES ON HAND HYGIENE IN HEALTH CARE

Supporting HIV prevention and reproductive goals in an HIV-endemic setting: taking safer conception services from policy to practice in South Africa

INTRODUCTION Safer conception care encompasses HIV care, treatment and prevention for persons living with HIV and their partners who desire children. In 2012, South Africa endorsed a progressive safer conception policy supporting HIV-affected persons to safely meet reproductive goals. However, aside from select research-supported clinics, widespread implementation has not occurred. Using South ...

Compliance to Hand Hygiene World Health Organization Guidelines in Hospital Care

DEAR EDITOR, With the emergence of antibiotic‐resistant organisms, the importance of hand hygiene (HH) has re‐emerged as a priority for the 21 century hospital administrators. It is proven fact that, organisms that cause hospital acquired infections (HAI) are most commonly transmitted by health care workers and it is a proven fact that HAI rates are significantly reduced when health care worker...