WHO launches first ever global report on Infection Prevention and Control, says good hand hygiene and other cost-effective practices can reduce health care infections by 70%

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus addresses the Special Second Session of World Health Assembly This special session (the second in the history of the WHO) was called for in a decision adopted by the Member States at the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly: https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA74/A74(16)-en.pdf During the session, the Member States will consider the following single substantive agenda item: Consideration of the benefits of developing a WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response with a view towards the establishment of an intergovernmental process to draft and negotiate such a convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response, taking into account the report of the Working Group on Strengthening WHO Preparedness and Response to Health Emergencies. The Working Group on Strengthening WHO Preparedness and Response to Health Emergencies, established at the WHA74, has met on five occasions and considered findings from several bodies in preparing its report. More https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2021/11/29/default-calendar/second-special-session-of-the-world-health-assembly