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TRT: 2:46
SOURCE: UNICEF
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
DATELINE: 22 MAY 2012, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
22 MAY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, Ban Ki-Moon entering conference room and shaking hands with President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria
2. Med shot, President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria
3. Med shot, President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria, Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake
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4. Med shot, pregnant woman
5. Close up, woman’s face
6. Close up, baby in mother’s arms
7. Med shot, boxes of medicine
8. Close up, medicine
9. Close up, medicine
10. Med shot, women with medicine
11. Med shot, hospital with mother and child
12. Close up, pregnant belly
22 MAY 2012, NEW YORK CITY
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway:
“We know that it is actually easy to reduce the number of deaths because by providing more medicines which we already have to more people we can save the lives of millions of women and children all over the world.”
14. Close up, commissioners of the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General:
“Every day 800 women and more than 20.000 children die from preventable causes. Every two minutes a woman dies at what should have been a joyful moment. And millions of women are unable to choose if, when and how many children they should have because they lack the modern ways of contraception. This tells me we are still not doing enough.”
16. Med shot, commissioners
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director:
“We must find new ways of overcoming persistent barriers, new ways of putting more life-saving interventions in the hands of health workers to reach the women and the children in greatest need.”
18. Wide shot, Oliver Sabot and commissioners
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Oliver Sabot, Executive Vice President of Global Programs, Clinton Health Access Initiative:
“We have these very simple, highly effective products that cost in many cases less than 50 cents, less than a cup of coffee that can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children and mothers and we are not getting them out to those in need.”
20. Med shot, commissioners
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Oliver Sabot, Executive Vice President of Global Programs, Clinton Health Access Initiative:
“So what we have set out to do in this group is to pursue the relatively basic solutions, fixing the distribution systems, to get the medicines to children and mothers, building the awareness and the education of health providers to effectively provide them and then building the awareness of the mothers themselves.”
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22. Med shot, children receiving treatment
23. Close up, pregnant belly
24. Close up, baby
25. Med shot, sick child
26. Med shot, sick child
The UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children convened in New York this week to finalize recommendations for urgent action to help women and children around the world.
Launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2010 and co-chaired by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway and President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria, “Every Woman Every Child” seeks to improve access to affordable and effective medicines and health supplies for the world’s most vulnerable people.
Every day nearly 800 women die from complications during pregnancy and childbirth. And every year almost 1.4 million children die from pneumonia.
The commission’s work focuses on 13 often life-saving commodities which all too often do not reach the women and children who need them most. Among these are common commodities like antibiotics to treat pneumonia, zinc and oral rehydration salts to treat diarrhoea and oxytocin to stop mothers bleeding after childbirth.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
“We know that it is actually easy to reduce the number of deaths because by providing more medicines which we already have to more people we can save the lives of millions of women and children all over the world.”
During the commission’s session UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon reminded the commissioners of the grim realities they are faced with.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
“Every day 800 women and more than 20.000 children die from preventable causes. Every two minutes a woman dies at what should have been a joyful moment. And millions of women are unable to choose if, when and how many children they should have because they lack the modern ways of contraception. This tells me we are still not doing enough.”
UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, who serves as Vice-Chair of the Commission, agreed that this was “an opportunity we cannot waste”.
SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director
“We must find new ways of overcoming persistent barriers, new ways of putting more life-saving interventions in the hands of health workers to reach the women and the children in greatest need.”
To that end, the commission has been focusing on the three main areas of market shaping, regulatory environment, and best practices and innovation.
SOUNDBITE (English) Oliver Sabot, Executive Vice President of Global Programs, Clinton Health Access Initiative
“We have these very simple, highly effective products that cost in many cases less than 50 cents, less than a cup of coffee that can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children and mothers and we are not getting them out to those in need.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Oliver Sabot, Executive Vice President of Global Programs, Clinton Health Access Initiative
“So what we have set out to do in this group is to pursue the relatively basic solutions, fixing the distribution systems, to get the medicines to children and mothers, building the awareness and the education of health providers to effectively provide them and then building the awareness of the mothers themselves.”
Based on this week’s meeting the Commission will present its final recommendations later this year and hopes to not only tackle treatable diseases but prevent 33 million unwanted pregnancies, protect 120 millions of children from pneumonia and ultimately help save a total of 16 million lives.
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