KENYA / VACCINE

Kenya is the first African country to introduce the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine which has been tailored to meet the needs of children in developing countries. Pneumococcal disease currently takes the lives of over a million people every year - including more than half a million children before their fifth birthday. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:41
• Production Date: 16 February 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVENTION; HEALTH SERVICES; MEDICAL SCIENCES; MEDICINE
• Geographic Subject: KENYA
• MAMS Id: U110216e

Description

STORY: KENYA / VACCINE
TRT: 2:41
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: KISWAHILI / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 14 FEBRUARY 2011, KENYA

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, mother Tabitha going home with her two children
2. Close-up, Tabitha and her children at home in Kibera, one of the largest slums in Kenya
3. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Tabitha Mwikali, Mother:
“When I took him to the doctors, that’s when I discovered it was pneumonia. My child was sweating a lot, having shocks. It was like that his whole body was being pierced by something. He was admitted for one month, and at the end of the month my child died.”
4. Close up, Tabitha washing clothes
5. Med shot, mothers and children at the global roll-out event of pneumococcal vaccine
6. Med shot, a sleeping child and the mother
7. Med shot, child on mother’s lap
8.Wide shot, pan right, the roll-out ceremony held in Nairobi, Kenya
9. Med shot, members of a local choir singing before the event starts
10. Med shot, President of Kenya Mwai Kibaki, accompanied by other government officials witnessing children being vaccinated with pneumococcal vaccine as part of the ceremony
11. Close up, President Kibaki
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya:
“I am pleased to announce that the government is committed to making this new program sustainable. We will provide this life-saving vaccine free of charge with every child that is under one year old in all public health centres.”
13. Med shot, a child and mother in the audience
14. Med shot, children and mothers in the audience
15. Med shot, mothers and children
16. Med shot, a health worker vaccinating a child
17. Med shot, mothers getting their children ready for vaccination at the end of the ceremony
18. Wide shot, Kibera, one of the largest slums in Kenya
19. Med shot, Tabitha and her children at home in Kibera
20. Med shot, a young mother holding her baby near her home in Kibera
21. Med shot, the young mother giving her child a bath
22. Med shot, mothers and children waiting in queue to receive pneumococcal vaccine at the end of the roll-out ceremony
23. Med shot, mothers and children waiting in queue
24. Med shot, a health working vaccinating a child
25. Close up, they child crying with tears after being vaccinated

Storyline

Eleven years ago, Tabitha lost her oldest child to pneumonia, a disease that kills 30,000 young lives in Kenya every year.

SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Tabitha Mwikali, Mother:
“When I took him to the doctors, that’s when I discovered it was pneumonia. My child was sweating a lot, having shocks. It was like that his whole body was being pierced by something. He was admitted for one month, and at the end of the month my child died.”

Recently, with the support of the GAVI Alliance, the vaccine to prevent pneumococcal diseases - once was only available in rich countries - is being officially introduced to the African continent.

Kenya is the first African country to introduce the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine which has been tailored to meet the needs of children in developing countries.

At the vaccine’s global roll-out event in Kenya, the country’s President joined mothers, health workers, donors and partners to witness the formal introduction of pneumococcal vaccine into Kenya’s routine immunization programme.

SOUNDBITE (English) Mwai Kibaki, President, Kenya:
“I am pleased to announce that the government is committed to making this new program sustainable. We will provide this life-saving vaccine free of charge with every child that is under 1 year old in all public health centres.”

If the vaccine can be introduced to more developing countries, it’s estimated that up to seven million children’s lives can be saved by 2030.

In Kibera, one of Kenya’s largest slums, Tabitha and her fellow mothers all received the good news. Their youngest children will soon join others throughout Kenya, from urban slums to rural villages, to be protected from pneumonia which kills more children than any other causes worldwide.