Impact of hand hygiene in reducing the burden of communicable diseases
The WHO reports that more than 500,000 deaths annually are due to poor hand hygiene; and also 1 million out of 4.1 million of maternal and neonatal deaths, are due to the same. PHOTO | COURTESY
What you need to know:
Research in Tanzania shows that, prior to the outbreak, 59 percent of Tanzanian households had handwashing facilities that included soap and water. However, only 22.83 percent of these facilities were functional (Shao et al., in Tropical Medicine and Health Journal, 2021).
