The global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap (PPPHW) works to save children’s lives by promoting the awareness of this simple practice.

Handwashing with Soap saves lives.

2 MILLION+ Children Die Every Year
From diarrhea and acute respiratory infections who are under five.

These figures could be cut dramatically if handwashing with soap were widely practiced.

These deaths are preventable

Research shows that, if widely practiced, handwashing with soap could reduce diarrhea by almost fifty percent and respiratory infections by nearly twenty-five percent. (Fewtrell et al., 2005)

Handwashing with soap is a right

Every child has a right to vaccination and should also have the right to protection from hand-transmitted diseases.

Large-scale changes in handwashing practices can be achieved

A large-scale increase in the practice of handwashing with soap would make a significant contribution to meeting the Millennium Development Goal 5: reducing deaths among children under five by two-thirds by 2015.

Welcome to The Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing (PPPHW)

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Global Handwashing Day

October 15th, 2011

Global Handwashing Day was originally created for children and schools, but can be celebrated by anyone promoting handwashing with soap. Each year, over 200 million people are involved in celebrations in over 100 countries around the world.


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