Experts Around the World Show Commitment to WHO's Clean Your Hands Campaign

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As part of the major global effort to improve hand hygiene in healthcare, the WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign every year asks people to share their photographs. In 2015, social media analytics reported a reach of 39 million for #safeHANDS, with thousands of people posting their photographs. This year leaders from around the world have already taken their photographs in support of the 2016 theme of #safesurgicalhands.

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