UN / MALARIA LAUNCH

An (USD) 225 million dollar international partnership puts affordable life-saving malaria drugs within reach of millions of people, especially children, in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. ROLL BACK MALARIA PARTNERSHIP / WHO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:05
• Production Date: 17 April 2009
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES; DISEASE PREVENTION; DISEASE CONTROL
• MAMS Id: U090417f

Description

STORY: UN / MALARIA
TRT: 1.05
SOURCE: ROLL BACK MALARIA PARTNERSHIP / WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: FILE: APRIL 2008, ANGOLA / APRIL 2008, ZIMBABWE, HWANGE / SEPTEMBER 2008, UGANDA

Shotlist

FILE – WHO - APRIL 2008, ANGOLA

1. Tilt down, from children to hand of nurse (part of a National Malaria Control Programme to reach remote areas with nets and effective malaria treatments) administering diagnostic tests
2. Med shot, children looking
3. Med shot, administering diagnostic tests
4. Med shot, big crowd at rapid diagnostic site

FILE – WHO - APRIL 2008, ZIMBABWE, HWANGE

5. Wide shot, Nurses sitting at table with patient
6. Med shot, packs of Coartem - Artemisinin combination therapy or ACTs (available free through public sector) on table
7. Med shot, nurse taking notes

FILE – WHO - SEPTEMBER 2008, UGANDA

8. Wide shot, road in rural Uganda people walking on the side
9. Med shot, drug sellers in rural town
10. Med shot, drug store with customer
11. Close up, packing drug
12. Pan right, from customers to seller
13. Pan right, shelves with drugs
14. Med shot, drug seller talking with customer
15. Zoom out, from children to road with cyclist

Storyline

An international partnership was launched on Friday in Oslo, Norway geared toward putting affordable life-saving malaria drugs within reach of millions of people, especially children, in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

Malaria is a potentially deadly disease that is transmitted through mosquito bites and kills more than 2,000 children every day. Children make up nearly 90 percent of the nearly 1 million people who die from malaria every year, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia.

The new initiative will reduce the price of effective malaria drugs so they can drive older, ineffective drugs out of the market. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will manage the new initiative.