The World Health Organization (WHO) Global strategy on infection prevention and control (IPC) builds on almost a two-decade effort led by WHO to highlight the importance of key IPC measures, in collaboration with partner organizations and Member States. This included making available a range of guidelines and implementation tools on priority areas based on country requests, scientific evidence, and the most impactful types of healthcare associated infections to Member States. In May 2022, a resolution on IPC was presented and adopted by consensus at the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly (resolution WHA75.13). The resolution included calls for improving IPC at the national, subnational and facility levels, in line with WHO-recommended core components for IPC programme and for WHO to issue a global strategy on IPC alongside a global action plan and monitoring framework.
