- Type: Health Awareness and Important Days.
- Observed on: 15 October
- Theme (2025): To be announced (Every year is devoted to hygiene promotion and behavioral change.)
- Purpose: To spread awareness in favor of handwashing with soap as a cheap, easy method of disease prevention.
Key Facts:
- Handwashing using soap can drastically decrease pneumonia and diarrhea that are the two major causes of death among children below five years old.
- Concentrates on hygiene education especially in schools, communities and in the health care centers.
History:
- Having been founded by the Global Handwashing Partnership.
- First observed in 2008.
- This has since been a worldwide movement that has been backed by governments, NGOs, schools and individual organizations.
Current Affairs Relevance (2025):
- Encourages preventive healthcare and hygiene.
- Enhances the international performance of SDG 3 (Good Health) and SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation).
- These are the points that emphasize the importance of the involvement of the people and their awareness as a means of fighting infectious diseases.
Month: Current Affairs - October 16, 2025
Category: IMPORTANT DAYS