WHO announces new hand hygiene campaign
Patient Safety Monitor Insider, May 6, 2009
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Piggy backing off its "Clean Care is Safer" campaign launched in 2005, The World Health Organization (WHO) announced its latest initiative on May 5th. Titled "Save Lives: Clean Your Hands," the initiative attempts to illustrate how deadly failing to use proper hand hygiene practices can be.
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