UN / GAZA POLIO VACCINES DISINFORMATION

Responding to the disinformation regarding the polio vaccine that the UN plans to use in Gaza, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric reiterated that the vaccine is “safe” and “effective”, and “it offers top quality protection.” UNIFEED

• Video Length: 00:01:25
• Production Date: 27 August 2024
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO; UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST - UNRWA; UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: HEALTH; POLIO VACCINATION
• Geographic Subject: GAZA
• MAMS Id: 3248407
• Parent Id: 3248407
• Alternate Title: unifeed240827d

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STORY: UN / GAZA POLIO VACCINES DISINFORMATION
TRT: 1:25
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 27 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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FILE – NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters

27 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General:
“Also, a few more details on polio, as we have seen some disinformation regarding the polio vaccine that plan to use in Gaza, and I want to make the following clear. The safest and most effective way to protect children against the polio virus, regardless of the variant, is to vaccinate them, of course. UNICEF, UNRWA and the World Health Organization are planning to roll out a campaign in Gaza to prevent the spread of the variant type 2 poliovirus. This will be done in two rounds, each consisting of two drops of oral polio vaccine type 2. This vaccine is safe, it is effective, and it offers top-quality protection. It is a vaccine globally recommended for variant type 2 poliovirus outbreaks by the World Health Organization. The vaccine will be provided to more than 640,000 children under ten years of age, with the aim of reaching at least 95 percent of the children in [each] round. Since the rollout began in March of 2021, more than 1.2 billion doses of the vaccine have been used to protect children in over 40 countries over type 2 variants of polio.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room

Storyline

Responding to the disinformation regarding the polio vaccine that the UN plans to use in Gaza, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric reiterated that the vaccine is “safe” and “effective”, and “it offers top quality protection.”

Speaking to reporters in New York today (27 Aug), UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said, “the safest and most effective way to protect children against the polio virus, regardless of the variant, is to vaccinate them.”

He explained the vaccine campaign in Gaza “will be done in two rounds, each consisting of two drops of oral polio vaccine type two.”

Dujarric highlighted, “It is a vaccine globally recommended for type two polio virus outbreaks by the World Health Organization.”

He added, “The vaccine will be provided to more than 640,000 children under ten years of age, with the aim of reaching at least 95 percent of the children in [each] round.”

“Since the rollout began in March of 2021, more than 1.2 billion doses of the vaccine, have been used to protect children in over 40 countries over type two variants of polio,” the Spokesperson concluded.