Highlights
- •Health care environmental hygiene practices are lacking around the world.
- •The survey analyzed the components of the WHO multimodal implementation strategy in regards to health care facilities’ environmental hygiene.
- •Many countries lack access to basic adequate supplies and procedures, even in higher income settings.
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Funding/support: This work is supported by the Infection Control Programme, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland; hand hygiene research activities at the SPCI are also supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant no. 32003B_163262 ).
Conflicts of interest: None to report.
