Health care-associated infection is a major, global issue for patient safety and its prevention was chosen by WHO Patient Safety as the theme of its First Global Patient Safety Challenge “Clean Care is Safer Care” launched in October 2005. It occurs in every healthcare facility in every country and affects hundreds of millions of patients annually worldwide. To date, a formal statement has been signed by 127 ministries of health as a pledge of support to implement actions to reduce health care-associated infection, corresponding to a 90% coverage of the world population.
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