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全球人类齐响应「全球洗手日」2011 「清洁双手，生命有救」

2011-10-14

Children wave flags at the Global Handwashing Day in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. Tom Sampson/UNICEF Oct 09
纽约／香港，2011年10月14日——联合国儿童基金会（UNICEF）明日将联同世界各地数以亿计的市民举行第四届「全球洗手日」运动，合力推广用肥皂洗手这个既简单，又有效，兼具成本效益的预防疾病方法。

各地将会举行连串精彩活动，庆祝今年10月15日的「全球洗手日」。教师、家长、演艺名人和政府官员等各界人士，将身体力行，鼓励大众勤洗手，共同抵预腹泻和急性唿吸道感染等威胁性命的疾病。 Schoolboys wash thier hands at a ceremony to celerbate Global Handwashing Day. Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. Tom Sampson/UNICEF Oct 09
「全球洗手日」在国际间一唿百应，全球多个国家及地区都一起响应这项运动。在阿富汗，今年将会有170万名、来自1,700所学校的儿童，浩浩荡荡一同洗手，而在厄立特里亚，亦会有逾32万名来自1,272所学校的学生参与同类活动。在秘鲁，当地政府更已宣佈10月10日起为「全国洗手周」，预料相关活动将得到2万所学校共350万名学生参与。至于在印度的拉贾斯坦邦和巴基斯坦，估计分別会有800万及100万名学生参加洗手活动。连同其他相关的活动，预期今年「全球洗手日」运动的规模势必超越上年，得到全球逾70个国家，来自70万所学校共2亿人共同参与。

上述的活动，都只有同一个目标，就是宣扬「清洁双手，生命有救」，这关乎拯救生命的信息。UNICEF估计，腹泻和肺炎每年分別夺去110万和120万名儿童的生命。而在预防疾病的成效方面，用肥皂洗手比起任何单一的疫苗均来得更简单直接、更具成本效益。只要在如厕后或处理食物前等关键时刻洗手，便可降低5岁以下儿童近50%的腹泻发病率和近25%的唿吸道感染。

Schoolboys wash thier hands at a ceremony to celerbate Global Handwashing Day. Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. Tom Sampson/UNICEF Oct 09

UNICEF个人及环境衞生高级顾问Therese Dooley指：「即使在发展中国家，肥皂都並不短缺。」她续指：「绝大部份贫困家庭都有肥皂，只是他们多使用肥皂洗衣服或洗澡，而鲜有用肥皂洗手。」Dooley女士续指，UNICEF期望用肥皂洗手，可变成所有国家的社会文化。

世界各地的政府现正将「全球洗手日」定为全国性的盛事，希望国民不只在这一天记得洗手，而是将用肥皂洗手培养成为文化，一年365日都实践这良好习惯。以2010年为例，孟加拉全国的学校共1,800万名儿童在10月15日进行大规模集体洗手示范，为当地政府提供了一个优越的平台，推行全国衞生运动，移风易俗，成功改变全国人民使用肥皂的习惯，加强民众用肥皂洗手的意识。

(left to right) Mr. Carel de Rooy, UNICEF Representative, Bangladesh, Anwar Hossain Sikder, Acting Country Director, Plan Bangladesh, Md. Nuruzzaman, Chief Engineer, Department of Public Health Engineering, Jahangir Kabir Nanak, State Minister, MO Local Government, Rural development and Cooperatives, Mr. Monzur Hossain, Secretary Local Government division, and Col. Kamruzzaman Khan, Principal, Dhaka Residential Model College, begin the hand washing at the Dhaka Residential Model School and College field, Dhaka, Bangladesh on the occasion of Global Hand Washing Day 2010, on 20 October 2010. More than fifty thousand students from different educational institutions on Wednesday assembled at the Residential Model School and College in the city and pledged to wash their hands with soap as part of the observance of Global Hand washing Day 2010. Students from primary and secondary schools including madrasas took part in the one-day event to celeate the third Global Hand Washing Day. According to a report by UNICEF and WHO , Bangladesh is among the 10 countries in the world that report the largest number of child deaths due to diarrhea. A total of 50,800 children under the age of five years die every year in Bangladesh from diarrheal diseases. The death toll worldwide is 3.5 million. Research shows that washing hands with soap is a highly cost-effective health practice that can reduce the incidence of diarrheal disease by over 40 per cent. But, despite its life-saving potential, effective handwashing is seldom practiced as many people do not use soap and only wash one hand. Global Handwashing Day was launched in 2008 as a public-private partnership with Unilever, UNICEF and Governments as key players. The partnership is now endorsed by 13 international and national organizations. Although the world celeated the day on the 15th of October, Bangladesh is observing it on the 20th since the 15th was a public holiday.

Children from a various schools show their clean hands after washing them with soap at the Dhaka Residential Model School and College field, Dhaka, Bangladesh on the occasion of Global Hand Washing Day 2010, on 20 October 2010.More than fifty thousand students gathered at the Residential Model School and College and pledged to wash their hands with soap. By making the pledge, children are making a promise to themselves and their communities to always practice good hygiene and help to reduce the occurrence of diarrheal diseases. The children demonstrated hand washing with soap along with dignitaries including the State Minister of the Local Government Division, Jahangir Kabir Nanok, UNICEF Representative, Carel de Rooy, and other partners. According to a report by UNICEF and WHO , Bangladesh is among the 10 countries in the world that report the largest number of child deaths due to diarrhea. A total of 50,800 children under the age of five years die every year in Bangladesh from diarrheal diseases. The death toll worldwide is 3.5 million. Research shows that washing hands with soap is a highly cost-effective health practice that can reduce the incidence of diarrheal disease by over 40 per cent. But, despite its life-saving potential, effective handwashing is seldom practiced as many people do not use soap and only wash one hand. Global Handwashing Day was launched in 2008 as a public-private partnership with Unilever, UNICEF and Governments as key players. The partnership is now endorsed by 13 international and national organizations. Although the world celeated the day on the 15th of October, Bangladesh is observing it on the 20th since the 15th was a public holiday.

「我们十分高兴今年有其他国家仿效孟加拉这个成功的例子。」Dooley女士指出：「我们成年人常常叮嘱小孩子不要养成坏习惯，而用肥皂洗手，就是每一个儿童都应养成的好习惯。」

关于「全球洗手日」： 10月15日是「全球洗手日」，2008年由用肥皂洗手公私伙伴组织（Global Public-Private partnership for Handwashing with Soap）发起，並获得各地政府、国际组织、民间团体、非牟利机构、私人公司及公众的支持。详情请浏览：www.globalhandwashingday.org

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