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UN / END TUBERCULOSIS
STORY: UN / END TUBERCULOSIS
TRT: 2:16
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 26 SEPTEMBER 2018, NEW YORK CITY
1. Exterior, UN Headquarters
2. Zoom in, podium
3. Wide shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization:
“Tuberculosis has plagued humanity for millennia and it is still with us. TB knows no borders – everyone is at risk, but it thrives where there is poverty, malnutrition or conflict.”
5. Wide shot, podium
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization:
“Earlier this year, we launched a new initiative to find and treat all 40 million people who need care by 2022. We’re asking all political leaders to commit to becoming 40 million champions to help us reach that goal.”
7. Cutaway, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization:
“We need your unwavering support. We can only succeed with political commitment from the highest levels and actions to back it up. Second, we need increased investment especially in science and research and we need new medicines, new vaccines and new diagnostics. Third, we must hold each other accountable for the promises we are making today. That is why we are developing a multisectoral accountability framework with four components: commitment, action, monitoring and review, to ensure we march our talk with real lasting change.”
9. Wide shot, podium
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“Tuberculosis provides a critical opportunity for us to implement system-wide approaches that build a health infrastructure capable of not only preventing, diagnosing and treating TB, but of promoting and protecting the broader health and well-being of entire communities. Our response to TB can expand access to medicines and drive progress toward Universal Health Coverage for all.”
11. Wide shot, delegates applauding
Member States of the United Nations General Assembly today issued a political declaration to commit their nations to eradicating tuberculosis by 2030.
Heads of state and government attending this first-ever UN High-level meeting on TB agreed to mobilize US$ 13 billion a year by 2022 to implement TB prevention and care, and US$ 2 billion for research. They committed to take firm action against drug-resistant forms of the disease; build accountability and to prioritize human rights issues such as the stigma that still prevails around TB in many parts of the world.
Speaking at the event, Director-General of the World Health Organization:
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said “Tuberculosis has plagued humanity for millennia and it is still with us. TB knows no borders – everyone is at risk, but it thrives where there is poverty, malnutrition or conflict.”
Tedros also said that earlier this year, the WHO launched a new initiative “to find and treat all 40 million people who need care by 2022” and asked the world leaders “to commit to becoming 40 million champions to help us reach that goal.”
The political declaration is the culmination of recent leadership commitments at global and regional level – including the 2017 Moscow Declaration to End TB – to drive universal access, sufficient and sustainable financing, intensified research and innovation, and accountability across all sectors.
The Director-General said “we need your unwavering support. We can only succeed with political commitment from the highest levels and actions to back it up.”
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