UGANDA / BREASTFEEDING WEEK

Every year in Uganda, the lives of hundreds of thousands of children under the age of five are lost to preventable illnesses like pneumonia and diarrhoea. Breastfeeding provides a free and effective way for a baby to get the valuable nutrients it needs for a healthy life and to prevent these killer diseases. This week is World Breastfeeding week. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:19
• Production Date: 1 August 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: HEALTH; NUTRITION; DISEASE PREVENTION; DISEASE CONTROL
• Geographic Subject: UGANDA
• MAMS Id: U110801d

Description

STORY: UGANDA / BREASTFEEDING WEEK
TRT: 1:19
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: RUNYAKITARA / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 26 JULY 2011, KABAROLE, UGANDA

Shotlist

1. Medium shot, child in clinic
2. Close up, syringe in medicine container
3. Medium shot, nurse about to inject baby with medicine
4. Close up, baby breastfeeding
5. Pan, mothers with babies
6. Pan, Margret Buriungu
7. Medium shot, Margret Buriungu breastfeeding
8. Close up, Margret’s child breastfeeding
9. SOUNDBITE (Runyakitara) Margret Buriungu, Mother of Five
“I think that with breastfeeding, the baby grows well, is healthy and doesn’t get sick as often”
10. Medium shot, Dr Richard Sekitoleko, Medical officer of Kibiito Health Center, Kabarole District, Uganda.
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Sekitoleko, Medical officer of Kibiito Health Center, Kabarole District, Uganda.
“So when I look at breast milk, I look at it as a wonderful substance that has all the nutrients. There is nothing you can replace it with.”
12. Close up, baby
13. Medium shot, baby being weighed
14. Close up, scales
15. Med shot, of baby being injected with medicine
16. Med shot, Margret Buriungu with baby

Storyline

Every year in Uganda, the lives of hundreds of thousands of children under the age of five are lost to preventable illnesses like pneumonia and diarrhoea.
Breastfeeding provides a free and effective way for a baby to get the valuable nutrients it needs for a healthy life and to prevent these killer diseases.
UNICEF and its partners are reaching out to mothers like Margaret in rural Uganda, who have recently given birth, to educate and inform them on the benefits of breast feeding.
SOUNDBITE (Runyakitara) Margaret Buriungu, mother of five:
“I think that with breastfeeding, the baby grows well, is healthy and doesn’t get sick as often.”

Dr. Richard Sekitoleko runs a health center on the outskirts of Kibiito in Western Uganda. He has managed to see first-hand the benefits of that come with breast feeding.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Richard Sekitoleko, local medial officer:
“So when I look at breast milk, I look at it as a wonderful substance that has all the nutrients. There is nothing you can replace it with.”
A mother’s milk cannot be substituted, especially in countries like Uganda, which are suffering from high malnutrition rates and rising food prices. Breast milk can and will save the lives of many babies in Uganda and around the world.