KIWANIS / MATERNAL NEONATAL CARE

UNICEF announces a new partnership with the global volunteer network Kiwanis International to fight tetanus in women and children worldwide, a disease that kills around 60,000 newborns each year. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:34
• Production Date: 25 June 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: HEALTH SERVICES; MEDICINE
• Geographic Subject: PHILIPPINES
• MAMS Id: U100625c

Description

STORY: KIWANIS / MATERNAL NEONATAL CARE
TRT: 2:34
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 5-12 JUNE 2010, PHILIPPINES

Shotlist

5 JUNE 2010, BASAY, PHILIPPINES

1. Various shots, baby with tetanus in hospital bed, attached to breathing tube
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Shalo Demiden, Mother of baby with neonatal tetanus:
"I can see how he hurts. I am praying that he will survive."
3. Med shot, baby with tetanus in hospital bed, attached to breathing tube

9-12 JUNE 2010, DUMAGUETE, PHILIPPINES

4. Med shot, Mother sits with her baby on her lap in the hallway of a health clinic amongst other waiting mothers at Dumaguete City Health Center
5. Med shot, mother's holding babies

5 JUNE 2010, BASAY, PHILIPPINES

6. Pan left, Representatives from Kiwanis International, Key Club, Circle K, and the US Fund for UNICEF enter the Main Health Center of the Basay Rural Health Unit wearing their Eliminate Project t-shirts along with UNICEF Philippines staff members in UNICEF t-shirts
7. Pan left, Representatives from Kiwanis International, Key Club, Circle K, and the US Fund for UNICEF wearing their Eliminate Project t-shirts are briefed in Basay Health Clinic
8. Wide shot, representatives from Kiwanis International and the US Fund for UNICEF visit with a mother and her new baby

9-12 JUNE 2010; DUMAGUETE, PHILIPPINES

9. Various shots, Health worker administers vaccination to woman of child-bearing age in health clinic
10. Med shot, Young woman gets counseled by health worker, a mother wither her baby is waiting in the background

5 JUNE 2010, BASAY, PHILIPPINES

11. Med shot, Representatives from Kiwanis International, Key Club, Circle K, and the US Fund for UNICEF wearing their Eliminate Project t-shirts are briefed in Basay Health Clinic

9-12 JUNE 2010; DUMAGUETE, PHILIPPINES

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Jos Vandalaer UNICEF Chief of Immunization:
"They can be part of public health history. We are very close to eliminating Maternal Neonatal tetanus. They can help UNICEF and its partners to get to the end goal."
13. Med shot, health worker administers vaccination to of child
14. Med shot, representatives from Kiwanis International and the US Fund for UNICEF visit with a mother and her new baby at the Dumaguete City Health Center
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Rene Miller, Kiwanis Youth Member:
"I've seen the tangible results of what we're doing. I've seen the mothers walk out of the clinics after they've gotten the TT and they're really happy that they're doing it for their children."
16. Close up, health worker draws Tetanus Toxoid vaccine into a syringe
17. Various shots, Health worker administers Tetanus Toxoid vaccine

5-8 JUNE 2010, BASAY, PHILIPPINES

18. Med shot, a mother who previously lost a baby to tetanus is holding another of her children in a rural village
19. Med shot, Lenora Hanna a representative of Kiwanis International is seen speaking with a mother who previously lost a baby to tetanus
20. Close up, a mother who previously lost a baby to tetanus is holding another of her children in a rural village
21. Med shot, mother and child

Storyline

Just days old, this newborn baby is fighting for his life. He has neonatal tetanus, and the pain he feels is agonizing.

So is the pain of his mother.

SOUNDBITE (English) Shalo Demiden, Mother of baby with neonatal tetanus:
"I can see how he hurts. I am praying that he will survive."

Her prayers may be answered because the baby is now receiving treatment.

But for too many mothers and their newborns, hospital care is out of reach. In such cases tetanus, an infection that strikes mothers as well as newborns constrained to unsanitary delivery conditions is almost always fatal.

That's why Kiwanis International and UNICEF are launching The Eliminate Project. This partnership aims to stop the hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths caused by maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) some 60,000 babies and 30,000 mothers every year.

129 million women in some of the most underserved parts of the world must be vaccinated over the next 5 years. It's a $110 million dollar investment, and one that Kiwanis International has the reach to achieve.

SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Jos Vandalaer UNICEF Chief of Immunization:
"They can be part of public health history. We are very close to eliminating Maternal Neonatal tetanus. They can help UNICEF and its partners to get to the end goal."

The partnership has already begun. Here in the Philippines, Kiwanis representatives got a recent first-hand look at just how easily it can be prevented.

SOUNDBITE (English): Rene Miller, Kiwanis Youth Member:
"I've seen the tangible results of what we're doing. I've seen the mothers walk out of the clinics after they've gotten the TT And they're really happy that they're doing it for their children."

UNICEF and Kiwanis have a history of delivering results for children around the world. Today, they announce a new history-making commitment to virtually eliminate MNT in the Philippines and in the 39 other countries worldwide where it is a real risk.