UGANDA / PNEUMONIA VACCINE

Pneumonia is one of the top three killer diseases of children under the age of 5 globally. In Uganda, pneumonia kills up to 24,000 children every year before their fifth birthday. But now thousands of children’s lives will be saved by the recent introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. UNICEF 

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:51
• Production Date: 9 May 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: DISEASE PREVENTION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES
• Geographic Subject: UGANDA
• MAMS Id: U130509e

Description

STORY: UGANDA / PNEUMONIA VACCINE
TRT: 1.51
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 27APRIL 2013, KAMPALA, UGANDA

Shotlist

1. Med shot, sick baby at Mulago hospital
2. Close up, hand of baby with IV needle
3. Close up, hands of nurse preparing vaccination
4. Close up, face of healthy baby on mother’s lap
5. Wide shot, nurse vaccinating a baby at a health centre
6. Wide shot, parade of children marching to event ground
7. Med shot, marching band playing
8. Wide shot, arrival of the President of Uganda waving to the crowd
9. Med shot, President Museveni holding a baby
10. Med shot, President Museveni speech
11. SOUNDBITE (English) H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda:
“Health is wealth. Now, if health is wealth, what are the measures that are needed to ensure that we live a healthy life? Requirement number one: Vaccination.”
12. Med shot, President Museveni signing a book
13. Close up, President Museveni and Seth Berkley, CEO, GAVI Alliance interacting
14. Med shot, Seth Berkley signing the launch board
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Seth Berkley, GAVI Alliance CEO:
“Pneumonia now is the leading vaccine preventable cause of death known in children. In Uganda here, something like 17 % of the child deaths under five are caused by pneumonia and a large percentage of those are caused by the pneumococcal bacteria, so the pneumococcal vaccine has the ability to prevent all of that.”
16. Close up, hands prepping needle
17. Wide shot, women with babies sitting outside health center waiting for vaccination
18. Med shot, women babies inside health center pan right
19. Med shot, baby on mothers lap behind vaccine tray
20. Wide shot, children entertaining with traditional dance at launch event
21. Wide shot, girls performing a poem
22. Med shot, girls saying: Please, Pneumonia, please, Melingitis – do not steal my precious time from me.”
23. Close up, 2 girls performing poem
24. Wide shot, poem performance

Storyline

In Uganda, pneumonia kills up to 24,000 children under the age of five every year.

But now thanks to the introduction of the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) thousands of lives will be saved.

UNICEF and WHO in partnership with the Government of Uganda celebrated the roll out of this life-saving vaccination with President Museveni presiding as Chief Guest.

SOUNDBITE (English) H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda:
“Health is wealth. Now, if health is wealth, what are the measures that are needed to ensure that we live a healthy life? Requirement number one: Vaccination.”

The availability of PCV is due to significant funding by the GAVI Alliance, a global health partnership committed to saving children’s lives through immunization.

SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Seth Berkley, GAVI Alliance CEO:
“Pneumonia now is the leading vaccine preventable cause of death known in children. In Uganda here, something like 17 % of the child deaths under five are caused by pneumonia and a large percentage of those are caused by the pneumococcal bacteria, so the pneumococcal vaccine has the ability to prevent all of that.”

The PCV vaccine also combats meningitis, another life threatening disease and is expected to reach a potential 1.4 million children in Uganda this year alone.

The introduction of PCV in Uganda marks a big step towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal target of reducing child mortality by two thirds by 2015.