Hand Hygiene

Perspective Water, Air & the Built Environment

BioArt Engages Audiences in the Issue of AMR in Wastewater

By Anna Dumitriu, Nicole Stoesser, Kevin Chau · October 26, 2026

Artist Anna Dumitriu grew bacteria from her own sink traps with Oxford researchers Nicole Stoesser and Kevin Chau, and turned them into artworks about hospital sinks, wastewater and antimicrobial resistance.

Perspective Antimicrobial Resistance & Stewardship

Minding the Gate: Highly Qualified Toxic Culture Syndrome, Revisited

By Michael Diamond · October 3, 2026

In 2017 I wrote about the gatekeepers who shut new ideas out of healthcare. Nine years, a pandemic and a growing antimicrobial resistance crisis later, the message matters more than ever.

Perspective Healthcare-Associated Infections & Patient Safety

Clean Water, Air, Hands and Surface Lower HAIs

By Dr. Curtis White, James Sweeney · January 27, 2016

Effective infection control programs must deal with all environmental sources and modes of transmission that lead to the negative effects of microbes on materials. These may include product odors, deterioration, staining, bio-slimes, human impacts…

Perspective Hand Hygiene

Nigeria: Hand Hygiene after Pandemics

By Dr. Sylvia Kama-Kieghe · December 14, 2015

Last year, Nigeria observed how an existential threat from the Ebola pandemic reinforced people’s attitude towards hand hygiene – a strongly held idea and collective belief in our cultures and religions – drove forward…

Perspective Hand Hygiene

Hand Hygiene Nigeria: Implementation Lessons

By Dr. Sylvia Kama-Kieghe · November 13, 2015

Infection prevention and control in health care settings in Nigeria is still very poor. Improvement in hand hygiene is fundamental to patient safety and could reduce the burden of diseases and deaths associated with…