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SOUTH AFRICA / MIDWIVES MARCH
STORY: SOUTH AFRICA / MIDWIVES MARCH
TRT: 3.04
SOURCE: UNFPA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATE: 18 JUNE 2011, DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA
1. Pan left, crowd, front of Moses Mabhida Stadium
2. Close up, country flags & midwives
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Moji Makanjoula, midwife, Nigeria:
“More and more children and mothers die needlessly. So the midwives are all coming together to forge ahead new strategies that will help stop maternal and child mortality.”
4. Med shot, midwives waving their flags
5. Zoom in, from Midwives of Ireland banner, to stadium
6. Close up, South African flag blowing in breeze
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Bridget Lynch, President International Confederation of Midwives:
“And now today we’re walking the five kilometres together as the midwives of the world into Durban we’ve arrived! The road to Durban that we started on May 5th is finishing today!”
8. Pan left, dancing & singing midwives
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Geeta Lal, UNFPA Coordinator Midwives Program:
“A good well trained midwife, who’s competent in all basic emergency obstetric care services, can do safe deliveries, they can prevent unsafe abortions, they can, they do family planning, they do counselling in um communities. So they’re extremely important you know, including new born care, which is part of a good midwife’s role, essential role.”
10. Wide shot, Bridget Lynch leading march
11. Med shot, Hong Kong midwives Association banner & midwives
12. Wide shot, march with male midwife
13. Med shot, World Needs Midwives banner & crowd
14.Pan right, US midwives singing ‘deep down in my soul’
15. Wide shot, Association Sages-Femmes du Gabon (midwives of Gabon)
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Dorcas Akeju, Afghanistan:
“In Afghanistan the in 2002 we had 467 midwives and now we have more than 2800 midwives. And I’m sure the maternal mortality rate which was one of the highest in the world decreased dramatically and decrease of maternal mortality.. something very significant.”
17. Wide shot, crowd
17. Pan right, marching crowd along beachfront
18. Wide shot, crowd with UK flag
19. Wide shot, crowd, panning into banner
20. Pan right, from UNFPA banner to South African & Australian flag
21. Wide shot, German flag & others in crowd
22. Close up, Canadian lady with soundbite: Hi! We’re from Canada.
23. Pan left, kettle drums
24. Med shot, kettle drum players, drums and crowd
25. Close up, Bridget, hands in air near finish line
26. Wide shot, ‘FINISH’ banner
27. Pan right, from Bridget applauding to crowd
Midwives from over 111 countries marched today (18 June) in Durban, South Africa as a sign of commitment to improving maternal and newborn care globally.
The march preceded the 29th Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives and the launch on Monday (20 June), of The State of the World's Midwifery Report 2011, based on a survey of 58 countries representing 81 million births a year, more than half of the world's total.
Moji Makanjoula a midwive from Nigeria said that “more and more children and mothers die needlessly”. So, she said the midwives were all coming together to forge new strategies that will help stopping maternal and child mortality.
An Afghan midwive Dorcas Akeju stressed that in her country in 2002 there were 467 and today there were more than 2800 midwives. “And I’m sure the maternal mortality rate which was one of the highest in the world decreased dramatically.”
The number of midwives, most of whom are women, varies enormously between and within countries, and many regions with high maternal and newborn mortality rates suffer from a shortage of skilled staff.
In some of the world’s poorest countries, as few as 13 percent of all births are assisted by a midwife or a health-care worker with the necessary skills.
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