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The practice of handwashing with soap tops the international hygiene agenda this
year with the first-ever Global Handwashing Day, slated for
Wednesday 15 October 2008. With 2008 as the UN International
Year of Sanitation, the Global Handwashing Day will echo
and reinforce its call for improved hygiene practices.
The agencies
leading the Global Handwashing Day efforts are part of
the Global PPPHW and include (but are not limited to)
the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP/World Bank),
UNICEF, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), USAID through the Hygiene Improvement Project
(HIP), Procter and Gamble and Unilever.
The guiding vision
of Global Handwashing Day is a local and global culture of
handwashing with soap. Although people around the world
wash their hands with water, very few wash their hands with
soap at the critical occasions.
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