October 15, 2025

Guidelines on hand hygiene in community settings

UN Entity:

WHO
UNICEF

SDGs:

SDG 03: Good Health & Well-Being

Innovation Area:

Behavioural Science

These Guidelines are concerned with the practice of hand hygiene to protect community health outcomes, in particular, the reduction of diarrhoeal diseases and acute respiratory infections.

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The focus is on hand hygiene in non-health care settings, collectively referred to as community settings. Community settings are defined as those where health care is not routinely delivered. They include three broad domains: domestic (households), public and institutional settings.

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