2019 WHO Global Survey on Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and Hand Hygiene

This is a WHO global survey on the current level of progress of infection prevention and control (IPC) programmes and hand hygiene activities in health care facilities in the context of the annual WHO hand hygiene global campaign (5 May 2019).This survey will be open for four months from 16 January to 16 May 2019. Any acute health care facility around the world can participate and this participation is entirely voluntary, the objectives of this survey are:- - To encourage and support local assessments of IPC and hand hygiene activities using standardized and validated tools, in the context of the regular work of the IPC teams/committees and the development of local improvement plans. - To gather a situational analysis on the level of progress of current IPC and hand hygiene activities around the world and inform future efforts and resource use improvement.