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Bangladesh aims to ensure universal access to hand hygiene by 2030. The importance of hand hygiene is three-dimensional: saving lives, saving money, and preventing infectious diseases (WHO and UNICEF, 2020). Hand hygiene is important in all settings: homes, healthcare facilities, schools, and other public places. Evidence for Bangladesh indicates that basic hand hygiene facilities are available in different settings and awareness of the importance of the need is high. However, further work is required to build a culture of hand hygiene as a social norm. The purpose of this Hand Hygiene for All roadmap is to embed the practice of hand hygiene. This roadmap identifies the strategic goals and opportunities for investments to improve hand hygiene and guide actions across the three pillars (1) political leadership (2) enabling environment and (3) supply and demand of hand hygiene products and services. The eight interrelated strategic objectives are: political leadership, policies, and strategies, institutional arrangements, financing, planning, monitoring & review, capacity building, supplying hand hygiene products and services, and Hand hygiene behavior change.