National Hand Hygiene Behaviour Change Strategy 2016-2020
Ministry of Health, South Africa
The strategy serves as a framework to guide the implementation of handwashing and hygiene promotion programmes and initiatives, by all those charged with the responsibility of delivering hygiene promotion programmes. It emphasized handwashing behaviour change as the simplest, proven and most effective intervention to significantly prevent and reduce water, sanitation and hygiene-related illnesses, such as diarrhoea, especially in children under 5 (five) years when practised at critical times.
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National Hand Hygiene Behaviour Change Strategy 2016-2020 Current Version
January 2022
The strategy serves as a framework to guide the implementation of handwashing and hygiene promotion programmes and initiatives, by all those charged with the responsibility of delivering hygiene promotion programmes. It emphasized handwashing behaviour change as the simplest, proven and most effective intervention to significantly prevent and reduce water, sanitation and hygiene-related illnesses, such as diarrhoea, especially in children under 5 (five) years when practised at critical times.
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