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GLAAS Hygiene Highlight 2020

Understanding how governments and external support agencies (ESAs) are addressing hygiene is critical during the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to be so after. Approaches to increase handwashing with soap and provide infrastructure for hygiene, as well as activities to promote and complement hygiene practices, […]

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Hand Hygiene for All Global Initiative Launch Document

The Hand Hygiene for All initiative aims to implement WHO’s global recommendations on hand hygiene to prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic and work to ensure lasting infrastructure and behaviors. This document outlines why universal hand hygiene is important and how multiple actors can work […]

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COVID Content Hub

A community-sourced platform for clinicians, public health professionals, and others responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in resource-limited settings. Access the content hub here. 


Beyond Raising Awareness: Promoting Handwashing in Nepal Amid the COVID-19 Crisis

This report proposes a simple framework for policy actions to effectively promote handwashing in Nepal amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Raising awareness about proper handwashing is the cheapest, easiest and most important way to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but it is far from sufficient […]

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Inequalities in access to water and soap matter for the COVID-19 response in sub-Saharan Africa

Citation: Jiwani, S.S., Antiporta, D.A. (2020). Inequalities in access to water and soap matter for the COVID-19 response in sub-Saharan Africa. Int J Equity Health, 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01199-z Abstract (excerpt): The COVID-19 pandemic has spread rapidly since the first case notification of the WHO in December […]

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Action Toolkit: Handwashing and Other Preventative Measures

This action toolkit provides guidance on what businesses can do immediately and in the longer term to raise awareness of and access to handwashing and other preventative measures. Government leadership is crucial, but companies and civil society organizations also have a vital role in working […]

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Handwashing Stations and Supplies for the COVID-19 Response

This document  provides an overview of available handwashing station designs for policy makers, implementers and procurement officers. It places special importance on local manufacturing and procurement and complements existing technical and programmatic guidance on WASH and COVID-19. It was jointly developed in the context of […]

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Rx Hand Hygiene Webinar Slide Deck and Key Resources

On May 7, 2020 at 8am EDT (12pm UTC), the Global Handwashing Partnership and Emory University’s Center for Global Safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) hosted the webinar highlighting the importance of access to hand hygiene facilities and practical actions that can be taken in […]

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Clean hands protect mothers and newborns in Nigeria through COVID-19

Rita Momoh is a registered nurse and midwife with Wellbeing Foundation in Abuja, Nigeria. She graduated with her nursing degree from Adamawa State College in northeast Nigeria and began her nursing practice at an orthopedic hospital in Jos, Nigeria. Rita practiced as a nurse before […]


Nurses and midwives are critical to teaching hand hygiene in Pakistan

This case study was originally posted on WHO’s website Sania, a midwife in a governmental hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan vividly remembers the first time she met her patient Razia, a 25-year-old women expecting her second child. “Razia was terrified and instantly broke into tears as […]


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