Possible events to promote Hand hygiene

Here is a list of events where you can promote hand hygiene:

• World Day of Social Justice - 20 February: The main objective of celebrating World Day of Social Justice is to raise a voice against social injustice and to bring the various communities internationally together to eliminate poverty, gender, and physical discrimination, illiteracy, religious discrimination to make a socially integrated society.
• World Water Day - 22 March: celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water. It is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis. A core focus of World Water Day is to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.
• World Health Day - 7 April: is a global health awareness day celebrated on 7 April every year, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as other related organizations. The First World Health Assembly decided to celebrate World Health Day on April 7 of each year, with effect from 1950.
• Hand Hygiene Day - 5 May: The SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands global campaign, launched in 2009 and celebrated annually on 5 May (World Hand Hygiene Day) aims to maintain global promotion, visibility and sustainability of hand hygiene in health care and to ‘bring people together’ in support of hand hygiene improvement around the world.
• Menstrual Hygiene Day - 28 May: is a global advocacy platform that brings together the voices and actions of non-profits, government agencies, individuals, the private sector and the media to promote good Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH) for all women and girls. More specifically, MH Day breaks the silence, raises awareness and changes negative social norms around MHH, and engages decision-makers to increase the political priority and catalyse action for MHH, at global, national and local levels.
• World Environment Day - 5 June: encourages awareness and action for the protection of the environment
• The World Hepatitis Day - 28 July: takes places every year to bring the world together under a single theme to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis and to influence real change.
• World Youth Day - 12 August: This day is dedicated to the role young women and men play in bringing change in tackling global issues and achieving sustainable development. It also serves as an opportunity to raise awareness of challenges and problems facing the world's youth.
• World Sepsis Day - 13 September: is a Global Sepsis Alliance initiative that started in 2012 and occurs every year on September 13th with events held all over the world to raise awareness about sepsis. World Sepsis Day is important because it is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against sepsis. When germs get into a person's body, they can cause an infection. If you don't stop that infection, it can cause sepsis. Bacterial infections cause most cases of sepsis. Sepsis can also be a result of other infections, including viral infections, such as COVID-19 or influenza.
• Global Handwashing Day (GHD) - 15 October: is an international handwashing promotion campaign to motivate and mobilize people around the world to improve their handwashing habits. Washing hands at critical points during the day and washing with soap are both important. The global campaign is dedicated to raising awareness of handwashing with soap as a key factor in disease prevention.
• World Toilet Day - 19 November: is an official United Nations international observance day to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis. The Observance celebrates toilets and raises awareness of the 3.6 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation. When some people in a community do not have safe toilets, everyone's health is threatened
• Human Rights Day - 10 December: We can take action in our own daily lives, to uphold the rights that protect us all and thereby promote the kinship of all human beings.