CHAD / STOP PROGRAM

UNICEF helps to increase Chad's capacity to combat polio infections through the STOP Program, which deploys volunteers to provide vital support in the development, implementation and evaluation of vaccination campaigns in the field. UNICEF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:30
• Production Date: 11 August 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: HEALTH; DISEASE PREVENTION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES
• Geographic Subject: CHAD
• MAMS Id: U110811b

Description

STORY: CHAD / STOP PROGRAM
TRT: 1:30
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: JULY 2011, N’DJAMENA, CHAD

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, STOP land-rover
2. Wide shot, clinic
3. Wide shot, volunteer at clinic
4. Close-up, baby at clinic
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Bates, Polio Communications Officer, UNICEF:
“The reason why we focus on polio now instead of the other diseases for eradication is because polio is eradicable. It’s something that we have the means, the technologies and opportunity to stop forever.”
6. Wide shot, STOP land-rover
7. Med shot, toddler standing at wall
8. Wide shot, land-rover driving over bridge
9. Wide shot, women carrying wood
10. Wide shot, STOP land-rover on dirt road
11. Wide shot, men pushing polio sufferer
12. Wide shot, pushing polio sufferer
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Raabi Diouf, STOP Volunteer:
“My responsibilities here are to supervise the social mobilization of polio consultants nationally and to give technical support to the government. When I arrived I thought that not much was being done in the area of social mobilization, but I’ve realized that they are actually well organized.”
14. Close-up, mother with baby
15. Wide shot, women sitting with kids under tree
16. Med shot, community meeting
17. Wide shot, community meeting
18. Med shot, nurse filling in vaccination card
19. Close-up, nurse filling in vaccination card
20. Close-up, baby being vaccinated

Storyline

Stop Transmission of Polio or STOP Program sends volunteers to support countries for polio eradication, and routine immunization.

STOP is part of the Global Immunization Division at the Centers for Disease Control, with the World Health Organization, UNICEF and Rotary International as partners.

SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Bates, Polio Communications Officer, UNICEF:
“The reason why we focus on polio now instead of the other diseases for eradication is because polio is eradicable. It’s something that we have the means, the technologies and opportunity to stop forever.”

STOP volunteers provide vital support for the development, implementation and evaluation of campaigns in the field, linking cultural understanding to health data.

SOUNDBITE (French) Raabi Diouf, STOP Volunteer:
“My responsibilities here are to supervise the social mobilization of polio consultants nationally and to give technical support to the government. When I arrived I thought that not much was being done in the area of social mobilization, but I’ve realized that they are actually well organized.”

STOP volunteers know that 100 percent of children who have not been vaccinated are at risk of contracting polio and that effectively immunizing all children every time is the only way to eradicate polio.

With the highest number of unvaccinated children in the world and poor health care infrastructure, there is desperate call to action on the frontlines. Immunizing all children every time is the only way to eradicate polio.