One Health Day – 3 Nov 2026
What does One health mean to you? One health is simply that there are interconnections between people, animals, plants, and the environment. What happens in one area, will affect another …
IPC Week 2025: Standing Up for Infection Prevention in Veterinary Practice
This IPC Week, we’re not just celebrating best practices—we’re aligning with a global movement. The Lancet’s One Health Commission (link in comments), now embedded in international agreements and policy frameworks, …
World Hand Hygiene Day 2025: It might be gloves, it’s always hand hygiene.
Gloves should be used when additional protection is required such as any contact with non-intact skin or mucous membranes, or an invasive procedure, or when there is a risk …
International Women’s Day – 8 March 2025
The theme this year is #AccelerateAction for gender equality To all the women who work every day to support others and smile, even when they don’t want to – this …
World Hand Hygiene Day 2024
World Hand Hygiene Day 2024 The theme is promoting knowledge and capacity building of all health workers through innovative and impactful training and education, on infection prevention and control, including …
World AMR Awareness Week – 18-24 November
The theme this year is “Preventing antimicrobial resistance together”. What does this mean? By staying well – we reduce the need for antimicrobials. We can do this by making …
Internation Infection Prevention and Control Week (15-21 October)
What are YOU doing to improve YOUR infection prevention and control practices? Hands are the most common route of infection. Infections can occur via DIRECT transmission – when any pathogens …
World Veterinary Nurse / Technician Awareness 9-13 October 2023
“The future is in your hands”
World Zoonoses Day 6 July 2023
Zoonoses are diseases transmitted form animals and humans (and reverse zoonotic or zooanthroponotic) are diseases from humans TO animals. Some zoonotic diseases are emerging because of land clearing / deforestation, …