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At a press conference in Geneva yesterday (17 April) In advance of World Immunization Week, Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director, of Immunization, Vaccination and Biologicals said that WHO wanted World Immunization Week to be an opportunity to celebrate the growing benefits of vaccination, “the great impact that one can get through vaccines”. WHO
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STORY: WHO / WORLD IMMUNIZATION ADVANCER
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SOURCE: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (who)
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 17 APRIL 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

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FILE – RECENT – WHO HEADQUARTERS, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

1.Wide shot, exterior WHO Headquarters

17 APRIL 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. Wide shot, press conference
3.Close up, report
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, WHO, Director, Immunization, Vaccination and Biologicals:
“We want World Immunization Week to be an opportunity to celebrate the growing benefits of vaccination, the great impact that one can get through vaccines. And actually the concept started in the Americas where there are a lot of advances in the area of vaccination.”
5.Cutaway, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, WHO, Director, Immunization, Vaccination and Biologicals:
“Individual protection, protection of communities, economic benefits, one can list why immunization is so important.”
7.Cutaway, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, WHO, Director, Immunization, Vaccination and Biologicals:
“I would like to quote one expert who used to say that with the exception of safe drinking water, no other modality, no other measures, have had such a major major effects on the lives of people.”
9. Cutaway, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, WHO, Director, Immunization, Vaccination and Biologicals:
“The key one is to ensure ownership, so that each country revisit even better their own situation, all countries, even those in the North, I think the situation can be improved everywhere. There is room for improvement, one would say, everywhere.

FILE – PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION (PAHO), APRIL 2011, SANTA CRUZ, BOLIVIA

Various shots, vaccine team going door to door and vaccinating children

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At a press conference in Geneva yesterday (17 April) In advance of World Immunization Week, Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director, of Immunization, Vaccination and Biologicals said that WHO wanted World Immunization Week to be an opportunity to celebrate the growing benefits of vaccination, “the great impact that one can get through vaccines”.

Okwo-Bele, said that the reason why immunization was so important was because of “Individual protection, protection of communities, economic benefits”.

According to the report better supply and logistics systems are essential to reach the estimated 22 million children in developing countries who are still not protected from dangerous diseases with basic vaccines, according to a special immunization issue published today by Vaccine.

Many countries encounter serious challenges in vaccine supply and logistics, from inability to keep vaccines at the correct temperature, to record keeping which enables community health workers to ensure the right vaccines reach the children who need them.

Inefficient health and delivery systems threaten access, availability, quality – and health outcomes.

Quoting an expert, Okwo-Bele said that “with the exception of safe drinking water, no other modality, no other measures, have had such a major major effects on the lives of people.”

He alsO noted that the key to success was “to ensure ownership, so that each country revisit even better their own situation, all countries, even those in the North, I think the situation can be improved everywhere. There is room for improvement, one would say, everywhere.”

World Immunization Week, with its call to “Protect your world, get vaccinated” is an opportunity to raise global awareness of the health benefits of vaccination.

Governments, development partners, international organizations, manufacturers, health professionals, academia, civil society, communities and individuals come together in 180 countries to promote the goal of universal immunization coverage – and to overcome challenges to achieving it.

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