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People who wash their hands, are people who save lives
According to Unicef, diarrhea kills more than a million children each year and hand washing could prevent it by stopping the spread of viruses and bacteria. The least act of hygiene is as effective as a vaccine and a lot cheaper.
Hand washing is the most simple, effective and cheapest way to combat infectious diseases. This is why the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) and the Organization of World Handwashing are permanently developing campaigns for all people, made this act that saves lives.
According to Unicef, is quite large number of people who even know the importance of washing their hands, postponed indefinitely the time during the day cleaning and many others are washed with water only because they see it sufficient.
Hands often act as vectors or channels of transmission of organisms that cause disease, these contaminations person to person, which can occur by direct or indirect contact can be interrupted by a bath of hands.
To wash your hands, you need to have clean water, soap, towel and disposal, the most important moments are washing after using the bathroom or changing a baby's diaper and before handling food.
However, although 87% of the world's population has potable water and soap for their low cost is in most homes, "the problem is that the soap used to wash clothes or bathe, but rarely for wash your hands, "said Therese Dooley, Unicef Specialist hygiene and sanitation.
So the World Day website Handwashing from each community seeks to develop promotional activities without creating a model, so there is freedom to highlight the values that health action can be charged in each locality:
"A formative research in Kerala, India, revealed that people wanted to wash their hands for the sake of convenience, to remove odors, to show affection for children and to exercise their social responsibility. In Ghana, a study found that people washed hands mainly for reasons of care, to avoid feeling disgust and to gain social status. "
With the completion of these ongoing campaigns has made progress in combating the spread of infectious diseases, but there is still a long way to go.
It only remains then formulate a question, have you already washed your hands today?