“Seconds save lives—clean your hands”: the 5 May 2021 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign

Table 1. 5 May 2021 WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign calls to action

Campaign participants	Call to action
Health care workers	Now more than ever, clean your hands at the point of care^a
IPC^b practitioners	Champion and mentor clean hands at the point of care
Facility managers	Ensure hand hygiene supplies are available at every point of care
Policy-makers	Invest now to ensure hand hygiene for all
Patients and families	Help us to help you: please clean your hands
Vaccinators	Clean your hands with every vaccine
General public	Make clean hands your habit—it protects us all

^aPoint of care refers to the to the place where three elements come together: the patient, the health care worker, and care or treatment involving contact with the patient or their surroundings (as published in the WHO guidelines on hand hygiene in health care)
^bIPC infection prevention and control

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