COTE D’IVOIRE / VACCINATION

UNICEF launches a vaccination campaign to stop the spread of yellow fever in Côte d'Ivoire. The aim is to reach more than 800,000 thousand people in four districts in the country. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:36
• Production Date: 31 January 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: DISEASE PREVENTION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
• Geographic Subject: COTE D'IVOIRE
• MAMS Id: U110131e

Description

STORY: COTE D’IVOIRE / VACCINATION
TRT: 1.36
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 25 JANUARY 2011, KATIOLA, COTE D’IVOIRE

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, people queuing for vaccination
2. Close up, man registering people
3. Med shot, woman being vaccinated
4. Med shot, baby being vaccinated
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Elvis Loua, health worker:
“If things are well organized our team can vaccinate 1,200 people a day.”
6. Various shots, Alassane being vaccinated
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Souleymane Bamba, Prefet of Katiola:
“It’s very normal during a period of crisis that everything is complicated. And that is why we have put the emphasis on public information. Letting all the village chiefs and government officials know about the vaccination. Because when there is crisis things are difficult.”
8. Various shots, people from local radio being vaccinated
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Dr. Antoine Ziao, Health and Nutrition Officer, UNICEF:
“The four districts are in an area where we are experienced in working. We know these areas, Katiola, Beomi, Seguela, Mankono. The civilian authorities know us. The military authorities know us. And I think they’re happy that we’re here – because UNICEF has done a lot in this crisis.”
10. Med shot, woman vaccinated and grimaces

Storyline

UNICEF launched a vaccination campaign to stop the spread of yellow fever in Côte d’Ivoire. The aim was to reach more than 800,000 thousand people in four districts.

SOUNDBITE (French) Elvis Loua, Health worker:
“If things are well organized our team can vaccinate 1,200 people a day.”

Alassane is one of them. Aged fourteen he was sent by here by his parents.

At least 25 people have so far died from this outbreak making rapid and far reaching vaccination a real priority.

SOUNDBITE (French) SouleymaneBamba, Prefet of Katiola:
“It’s very normal during a period of crisis that everything is complicated. And that is why we have put the emphasis on public information. Letting all the village chiefs and government officials know about the vaccination. Because when there is crisis things are difficult.”

When the music playing stops at this local radio station, a public information campaign calling for people to get vaccinated hits the airwaves.

For international agencies, the political stalemate has made working in some parts of Cote d’Ivoire very difficult.

Fortunately for this campaign UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization has been able to operate relatively freely.

SOUNDBITE (French) Dr. Antoine Ziao, Health and Nutrition Officer, UNICEF
“The four districts are in an area where we are experienced in working. We know these areas, Katiola, Beomi, Seguela, Mankono. The civilian authorities know us. The military authorities know us. And I think they’re happy that we’re here because UNICEF has done a lot in this crisis.”

Not everyone’s quite so happy about being vaccinated. But when the pain subsides and the tears have dried another Ivorian will have been protected against a deadly but also very preventable disease.