| Teleclass | (FREE WHO Teleclass - Europe) FIGHT ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE: IT'S IN YOUR HANDS |
| Outline: | Objectives: - Review the fact that effective influence and leadership in infection prevention and control (IPC) saves lives. - Stress on the opportunity of the 2017 WHO SaveLives:CleanYourHands campaign to strengthen IPC messages informing actions in support of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) national action plans, which every country is due to have in place by 2017. - Engage IPC leaders to implement WHO guidelines on core components of IPC programs, including hand hygiene, to combat antibiotic resistance. - Enlarge the community of key-opinion leaders and professionals pledging for enhanced actions toward better hand hygiene and reduction of healthcare-associated infections and AMR spread and in particular health workers, policy-makers, and chief executive officers and administrators. |
| Date | May 5, 2017 |
| Live broadcast time | |
| Faculty: | Prof Didier Pittet, WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, Geneva Prof. Benedetta Allegranzi, WHO, Geneva |
| Notes: | Sponsored by the World Health Organization Infection Control Global Unit (www.who.int/gpsc/en) |
| Payment: | (Free Teleclass) |
