Norovirus – The Cruise Ship Revenge Bug?
By now it has become clear that Norovirus is back and in full force on cruise ships. Based on the latest CDC data by the VSP (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2023), as…
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Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer and Handwashing Do Not Kill Norovirus
What Healthcare, Food Service, and the General Public Need to Know to Protect Themselves Main Article: While the world remains focused on COVID, another bug has been hitting record highs: Norovirus. According to the…
Position on Healthcare Visitor Hand Hygiene
Recent public health concerns call for innovative strategies to better protect clients, healthcare workers, and visitors in the healthcare setting. Pathogens can be found on the hands of visitors upon entry and exit from…
Importance of Patient Hand Hygiene Education and Accessibility of Hand Sanitizers
As the world continues to navigate the ever-changing waters of the COVID-19 pandemic, one message has been consistent: wash your hands. Even before COVID-19, we have long known that hand hygiene is the most…
Hand Hygiene: Unexpected Challenges and Cutting-Edge Solutions
Hand washing has taken on renewed importance during the COVID-19 health crisis. Employees in the food service and health care fields have been shown to wash hands inconsistently and ineffectively, despite emphasis on heightened…
It’s Time to Dry Out
The importance of handwashing in preventing the spread of disease has been hailed as the single most effective way to prevent the spread of disease (CDC, 2018) and handwashing protocols have been established and…
The Power of Data to Improve Hand Hygiene and Reduce HAIs
While hand hygiene is widely considered to be the most important factor in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), hand hygiene compliance rates in hospitals still average around 40 percent. Improving hand hygiene has been a…
A Global Standard for Healthcare Hand Hygiene Performance and Compliance
According to the WHO, the rate of healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) globally is 1 in 10 patients. The burden on low- and mid-resource countries is several fold higher compared to high-resource countries. The cost of…
Empowering Patients is Critical to Decreasing HAIs
Hand hygiene is the best method to prevent the transmission of infections. Hand hygiene for hospitalized patients sounds obvious – something that should be easy to accomplish and regarded as important to the patient…
Hand Hygiene at Home and School
Infectious diseases continue to be a health challenge and economic burden within our communities. Though effective hand hygiene education is critical, there has been a steady decline in hygiene promotion, especially in the home.…
Local Production of Alcohol Based Hand Rubs (ABHR) in Nigeria – The Way of the Future?
In the Nigerian healthcare space there has been increasing awareness and moves towards effective hand hygiene practice in healthcare facilities. As healthcare managers seek to balance the availability of infection prevention tools for health workers…
Nigeria: Hand Hygiene after Pandemics
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…
Patient Hand Hygiene: The missing link in preventing Hospital Acquired Infections?
Hospital acquired infections (HAI’s) are a major threat to patient safety and there is substantial evidence that good hand hygiene reduces the transmission of these diseases. However, most hand hygiene initiatives have focused on…
Show Me Your Hands: Hand Hygiene Myths and Facts
The use of hand sanitizers is ubiquitous in public places all over the United States. Although this promotes better hand hygiene, improper use renders many of these dispensers useless. Main Article: Proper hand hygiene plays…
Dangerous Soap Slurry to Clever Drying Hooks
According to the Centers for Disease Control, proper hand washing, with soap and clean running water, is the single most effective way to prevent the transmission of disease. However, in many countries, soap is…
Hand Hygiene Nigeria: Implementation Lessons
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…
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