Recognizing this worldwide crisis, WHO established the campaign Clean hands are safer hands and joins other campaigns by addressing the high infection rates through the implementation of endorsed guidelines aimed at reducing death from transmission of health care-associated infections.

The CDC’s campaign to Prevent antimicrobial resistance aims to prevent antimicrobial resistance in health-care settings by a range of strategies aimed at preventing infection, diagnosing and treating infection, using antimicrobials wisely and preventing infection transmission. The campaign is targeting clinicians who treat particular patient groups such as hospitalized adults, dialysis patients, surgical patients, hospitalized children and long-term care patients.

The IHI campaign called the 5 million lives aims to reduce MRSA infections through the implementation of five key interventions:

1. hand hygiene;

2. decontamination of environment, equipment;

3. active surveillance cultures;

4. contact precautions for infected and colonized patients;

5. compliance with central venous catheter and ventilator bundles.