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Happy #GlobalHandwashingDay! Keeping your hands clean is one of the simplest ways to protect yourself and your family from getting sick. It also helps fight #AntimicrobialResistance. Learn more: bit.ly/3rRqqHq
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Hand hygiene is one of the most important measures to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, including bacterial, diarrhoeal and respiratory diseases, such as #COVID19 👉bit.ly/3AHNwST
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Globally, around 802 million children do not have access to basic hygiene services with water & soap at school.
On Saturday's #GlobalHandwashingDay, is urging countries to make hand hygiene a priority to prevent the spread of diseases. unicef.org/wash/handwashi
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On Global Handwashing Day, we look to medicine laureate Jules Bordet and his discoveries relating to immunity, including identifying the bacterium that causes whooping cough. Whooping cough can be prevented with vaccines and its spread impeded by regular hand washing.
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Today is #GlobalHandwashingDay!
Here's how to #WashYourHands properly. Use soap and water for at least 40-60 seconds.
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💧🧼 #GlobalHandwashingDay is a global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness about the importance of #handwashing with soap!
We serve as the secretariat for ! Check out the partnership’s #handwashing features, blogs & resources:
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Today is #GlobalHandwashingDay! The time to accelerate hand hygiene is now - and it requires collective action to enact real change. As we move beyond COVID-19 to our new normal, we must #UniteforUniversalHandHygiene. Share what you're doing this Global Handwashing Day below!
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Global Handwashing Day is tomorrow! Handwashing is a simple task to eliminate unwanted pathogens on your hands! #GlobalHandwashingDay #UniteforUniversalHandHygiene
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"...where we require most cross-sector collaboration, is in creating long-lasting hygiene markets." This #GlobalHandwashingDay, we're excited to have join as an official partner. Check out their latest blog here: globalhandwashing.org/accelerating-a
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In her latest blog for #GlobalHandwashingDay, our Leader calls on governments, NGOs, and the private sector to come together to accelerate access to handwashing across #Asia and #Africa
Find out more:
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This #GlobalHandwashingDay we're delighted to announce the appointment of +100,000 CEOs - Chief Education Officers. Young changemakers committed to teach millions of kids that H is not just for Hat or Horse, H must stand for handwashing!
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Achieving universal #WASH access means leaving no one behind. Under the new #GlobalWaterStrategy, has committed to reaching 22 million people with access to water and 22 million with access to sanitation, half of whom have never had access before.
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Two years ago, we launched the #HandwashingHandbook, a comprehensive tool for hand hygiene programming. Today, the Handwashing Handbook is now available in six languages. Read more here: bit.ly/3CtYsqb #GlobalHandwashingDay
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In the lead up to #GlobalHandwashingDay, tell us what you’re doing to #UniteforUniversalHygiene. 🙌
At the GHC, we will continue to advocate hand hygiene as an essential element of health and development. 🫧🦠
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Check out the Hand Hygiene Acceleration Tool here: bit.ly/3CM0hzd
Countries can use this tool to #UniteforUniversalHandHygiene, tracking processes to develop #handhygiene roadmaps and assessing the quality of content in those strategies and plans #GlobalHandwashingDay
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HAPPENING NOW! Join us as we share the NEW Hand Hygiene Acceleration Framework Tool. Join us here:
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Join us as we celebrate #GlobalHandwashingDay TOMORROW! We're partnering with the #HandHygieneforAll Initiative to host a learning event around the NEW Hand Hygiene Acceleration Framework Tool on Wednesday, October 12, at 12PM UTC. Register here:
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#UniteforUniversalHandHygiene to increase hand hygiene financing by investing in programs that are hygiene sensitive & lead to lasting hand hygiene habits.
WatSSUP is using the WASH Quartet Game to sensitize refugees & hosts in Northern 🇺🇬 on the importance of handwashing #SDG6
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As we lead up to #GlobalHandwashingDay, we're sharing #handhygiene stories around the world through our community forum. Check it out here: globalhandwashing.org/global-handwas
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Join us as we celebrate #GlobalHandwashingDay in 2 days! We're partnering with the #HandHygieneforAll Initiative to host a learning event around the NEW Hand Hygiene Acceleration Framework Tool on Wednesday, October 12, at 12PM UTC. Register here:
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Happy #GlobalHandwashingDay Week! Let us know how you're committing to this year's theme, #UniteforUniversalHandHygiene, here: globalhandwashing.org/global-handwas
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In preparation for #GlobalHandwashingDay, will spend the week highlighting the importance of handwashing.
Specifically, we will showcase how we are using the WASH Quartet Game & WASHaLOT to support increased access to handwashing in Northern 🇺🇬 by refugees & hosts.
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Join us as we celebrate #GlobalHandwashingDay! We're partnering with the #HandHygieneforAll Initiative to host a learning event around the NEW Hand Hygiene Acceleration Framework Tool on Wednesday, October 12, at 12PM UTC. Register here:
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How can people *still* not have access to clean water?
This is a question we get asked a lot. We understand that, sometimes, it feels like the message hasn't changed in decades. But here are the facts:
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As we lead up to #GlobalHandwashingDay, our partners are sharing how they're improving #handhygiene access and practice around the world. Check out how is supporting efforts to #UniteforUniversalHandHygiene: globalhandwashing.org/cdc-and-partne
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Join us as we celebrate #GlobalHandwashingDay! We're partnering with the #HandHygieneforAll Initiative to host a learning event around the NEW Hand Hygiene Accelerator Tool on Wednesday, October 12, at 12PM UTC. Register here:
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#GlobalHandwashingDay is coming up! Read how you can get involved in our efforts to #UniteforUniversalHandHygiene: globalhandwashing.org/how-to-get-inv
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It’s important to always wash your hands with soap & water before eating and drinking. Establish places to wash your hands in your household, in your community, in schools, in college, churches, workplaces, and in health facilities.
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#GlobalHandwashingDay is this month! How will you #UniteforUniversalHandHygiene? Let us know how you'll be involved this Global Handwashing Day!
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Are you celebrating #GlobalHandwashingDay? Join us this Thursday, September 8, at 12PM UTC to share your plans to #UniteforUniversalHandHygiene! Register here: bit.ly/3CJ0vbT
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Are you celebrating #GlobalHandwashingDay this year? Join us next week as we share more on this year's theme and hear what others are doing to #uniteforuniversalhandhygiene! Register here: bit.ly/3CJ0vbT
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At #WorldWaterWeek, and ’s shared new tools that can be used to provide a universal framework for #handhygiene progress. ✋ 💦 🧼
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Are you attending #WorldWaterWeek?
Join and ’s for 's “The World Shouldn’t Wait Any Longer for Universal #HandHygiene” session.
💦 August 24 at 08:30 GMT
💦 Learn more: bit.ly/3R0gLsL
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Celebrating #GlobalHandwashingDay? Use our resources to #UniteforUniversalHandHygiene here: bit.ly/2lSoWxT
#UniteforUniversalHandHygiene to advocate for hand hygiene as an essential element of health and development #GlobalHandwashingDay
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#UniteforUniversalHandHygiene to fill hand hygiene evidence gaps, focusing on hand hygiene costs and return on investment to drive more investment #GlobalHandwashingDay
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#UniteforUniversalHandHygiene to prioritize hand hygiene in institutional and public settings, including schools, healthcare facilities, workplaces, and other public settings #GlobalHandwashingDay
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