GFA World Blog

Global Handwashing Day is observed every year on October 15. GFA-supported workers hold events each year to teach the importance of washing hands and how it can help prevent many fatal illnesses.

Inexpensive Disease Prevention

According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), “About 1.8 million children under the age of 5 die each year from diarrheal diseases and pneumonia, the top two killers of young children around the world. Handwashing with soap could protect about 1 out of every 3 children who gets sick with diarrhea and almost 1 out of 5 young children with respiratory infections like pneumonia.”

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