How to Wash Your Hands Correctly! (Developing World Version)

H1N1 swine flu and other viruses are believed to spread when a person has contact with a person infected with the virus or a surface with the virus on it. According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), you can reduce your risk of contracting swine flu and other viruses by washing your hands thoroughly and correctly. In this video, Becky Kuhn, M.D. demonstrates the correct, CDC-recommended handwashing technique that will clean your hands most thoroughly and reduce your risk of contracting swine flu and other viruses as much as possible. Becky Kuhn, M.D. explains why it's important to wash your hands to avoid contracting or transmitting diseases. She explains and demonstrates the correct techniques for washing hands using soap. This video is relevant for anyone who wants to improve their hygiene and avoid illness and is especially important for people who have weakened immune systems (such as people with HIV or clinical AIDS) or who are caregivers for those with weakened immune systems. This video includes recommendations for people living in developing countries where soap, warm water, and handrubs may not be readily available; a separate video has recommendations for developed countries. This video is freely downloadable from http://www.archive.org/details/aidsvideos_wash_developing . Visit http://www.GlobalLifeworks.org and http://AIDSvideos.org to learn more. Disabled accessibility: The transcript for this and many other AIDSvideos.org videos can be downloaded from http://aidsvideos.org/translate.shtml . [Do you want to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS? Are you fluent in a language other than English? Then volunteer to translate our videos into other languages! Click http://AIDSvideos.org/translate.shtml to to learn how you can help!!! © Copyright 2007-2011 Global Lifeworks. All rights reserved. This work is licensed to be used for non-commercial purposes under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.]

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[python2004]

Good video but what a waste of water!!! If you have to wash your hands for at least 20 seconds shouldn't that include turning off the tap at the start (with your elbow perhaps)?!?

[AIDSvideos]

This video follows current best practice recommendations, and yes, it uses more water than not following the recommendations. The handle is contaminated by the unclean hands of others, so you don't want to touch it with your hands after washing. Few are willing or able to turn off their tap with the elbow & then turn it back on with the elbow, but if you are & are willing to run a (presumably low) risk of elbow-to-hand contamination to save water, you're free to do so!

[runwithrainbows]

If You Touch raw Chicken And You Wash your Hnds With hot Water And Soap Throughlory Does That make your hands free from germs?

[AIDSvideos]

Not "free from germs" or "100 percent clean." Different cleaning techniques achieve different degrees of cleanliness. Google "Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings Core". This will bring up PowerPoint slides with a graph showing how clean hands are after hand washing and use of alcohol hand rubs.

[RadioTrunews]

There are a lot of videos popping up, well fair few every now and then and at the end it's dot g o v.

I doubt they are some insider, government working employee or agent.

They just genuinely believe they are doing the right thing.

But if they researched, they would actually see that there is a bigger picture.

Having pushed the the now proved to do more harm than good Tamiflu on us, they now expect us to believe that the vaccine will be 100% safe, I'll pass thanks.

[PaRaMoReFaN331]

what is the best soap to use?

[PaRaMoReFaN331]

okey dokey. i read the response to the other comment.

okay.

[PaRaMoReFaN331]

NOW i KNOW HOW TO WASH MY HANDS:)

lol.

it was helpful. thank you.

but i agree, what a waste of a lot of water.

GO GREEN!

[mansihrocks]

i am scared i am gonn wash my hands nicely now

[kalreka]

OMG!!! the right hand side tap is FULL OF SOAP BUBBLES. The next person has to open the tap with the previous person's soap bubbles. ha ha ha...

[kalreka]

OMG!!! the next person how is coming to wash the hand has to clean the right hand side the tap as it is full of soap bubbles.The begining is really good but the end:<)))))) no comments.

[charlenekarras]

by the way while were getting anal you forgot to clean your finger nails and also theres germs on that paper towel, looks like you have to wash your hands again

[charlenekarras]

YOU KNOW HOW MUCH GERMS ARE ON THE FUKIN SINK??? there are germs on the handles when you turn the handle with germs on your hand then you wash your hands and then you retouch the handle and get the germs again.

[padude64]

I have pancreas problems and am HIV poz! The doc says I have 5 years left! I am 43 and dont want to die!