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| Title: | Global Handwashing Day |
| When: | 15.10.2013 |
| Location: | worldwide |
| Description: | UNICEF‘s annual Global Handwashing Day, emphasises the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective, simple, and affordable way to prevent disease. UNICEF estimates that diarrhoea kills 1.1 million children every year, and pneumonia-related illnesses take another 1.2 million child lives. Handwashing with soap prevents disease in a more straightforward and cost-effective way than any single vaccine. The simple act of washing hands with soap at critical moments – such as after using the toilet or before handling food – is an easy and affordable intervention that can reduce the incidence of diarrhoea among children under five by almost 50%, and cut respiratory infections by as much as 25%. UNICEF would like to ensure handwashing with soap becomes a social norm in all countries. Governments around the world have now adopted Global Handwashing Day as a national celebration, wanting the event to be more than just a day, and to ensure that handwashing with soap is promoted throughout the year. http://globalhandwashing.org/ghw-day |
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