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STORY: UN / CHILD MORTALITY
TRT: 2.00
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 SEPTEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - PAKISTAN, MAY 12, 2009
1. Wide shot, children playing
2.Med shot, baby crawling
FILE - ETHIOPIA, 24 APRIL 2006
3.Med shot, mother and baby with health worker
4.Close up, baby crying
FILE – AFRICA (DATE AND LOCATION UNKNOWN)
5.Wide shot, people waiting for health care
6.Med shot, baby sitting on parent’s shoulders
FILE - ZIMBABWE, JUNE 2009
7.Med shot, nurse treating baby
8.Close up, baby in hospital bed
NEW YORK, 10 SEPTEMBER 2009
9.SOUNDIBTE (English) Renee Van de Weerdt, UNICEF Chief of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health:
“The number is going down because we have been, together with partners, good at matching cases of death with the interventions. An example would be malaria, and malaria still kills a lot of children but we’ve been really good at distributing insecticide treated nets, getting the new drugs out, getting good at children at risk of malaria are protected and treated.”
FILE - ZIMBABWE, JUNE 2009
10. Med shot, mother and baby
FILE - SRI LANKA, DECEMBER 2008
11.Med shot, mother feeding baby in hospital
NEW YORK, 10 SEPTEMBER 2009
12.SOUNDBITE (Enlgish) Renee Van de Weerdt, UNICEF Chief of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health:
“If we see countries like Malawi for example as a country that has made huge progress in terms of under five mortality reduction, countries like Bangladesh, like Nepal, many countries in sub sarahan Africa like even Niger where one would think that it would be very difficult to make progress have shown that they can make progress.”
FILE - DR CONGO, DECEMBER 2008
13.Med shot, UN peacekeepers direct vehicles, pan to women and children fleeing
FILE - LESOTHO FEBRUARY 2009
14. Med shot, mother and baby in hospital
15. Close up, baby being treated in hospital
NEW YORK, 10 SEPTEMBER 2009
16. SOUNDIBTE (English) Renee Van de Weerdt, UNICEF Chief of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health:
“For UNICEF again and with all the partners working on the ground, working in conflict-affected countries, working around HIV prevention and treatment will be really key to make sure the numbers continue to go down.”
FILE – AFRICA (DATE AND LOCATION UNKNOWN)
17. Med shot, doctor working with child patient
18. Close up, doctor
19. Close up, baby
FILE - SYRIA, JULY 2008
20. Close up, baby being vaccinated
FILE - ANGOLA, 2008
21. Med shot, health worker
22. Close up, baby getting drops
SRI LANKA, December 2008
23. Med shot, mother and baby walking on beach
Significantly reducing the number of children who die before they reach their fifth birthday is one of the key Millenium Development Goals (MDGs).
Malnutrition and diseases such as malaria and diarrhea continue to rob more than eight million children of their lives each year.
But that number is decreasing. In 2008 an estimated 8.8 million children died, down from 12 and a half million in 1990
SOUNDIBTE (English) Renee Van de Weerdt, UNICEF Chief of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health:
“The number is going down because we have been, together with partners, good at matching cases of death with the interventions. An example would be malaria, and malaria still kills a lot of children but we’ve been really good at distributing insecticide treated nets, getting the new drugs out, getting good at children at risk of malaria are protected and treated.”
Ninety-three percent of under-five deaths occur in Africa and Asia but even within those regions, progress is being made.
SOUNDIBTE (English) Renee Van de Weerdt, UNICEF Chief of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health:
“If we see countries like Malawi for example as a country that has made huge progress in terms of under five mortality reduction, countries like Bangladesh, like Nepal, many countries in sub sarahan Africa like even Niger where one would think that it would be very difficult to make progress have shown that they can make progress.”
Progress has not been so marked in countries that suffer on-going conflict, and in southern Africa where there are high numbers of women living with HIV.
SOUNDIBTE (English) Renee Van de Weerdt, UNICEF Chief of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health:
“For UNICEF again and with all the partners working on the ground, working in conflict-affected countries, working around HIV prevention and treatment will be really key to make sure the numbers continue to go down.”
Progress can be accelerated even in the poorest environments, through integrated, evidence-driven, community-based health programs that focus on addressing the major causes of death -- pneumonia, diarrhea, newborn disorders, malaria, HIV and under-nutrition.
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