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STORY: UNICEF / CHILD MORTALITY OVERVIEW
TRT: 2:40
SOURCE: UNICEF
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LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: FILE
FILE - SEPTEMBER 2012, LAOS
1. Med shot, two children,
FILE - APRIL 2013, GUATEMALA
2. Close up, baby with red cap
FILE - AUGUST 2012, CHAD
3. Med shot, mother and child
FILE - MARCH 2013, LEBANON
4. Med wide, two children
FILE - APRIL 2013, GUATEMALA
5. Med shot, young girl
FILE – 2012, SWAZILAND
6. Close up, baby
FILE - OCTOBER 2010, KYRGYSTAN
7. Close up, young baby crying
FILE - APRIL 2013, GUATEMALA
8. Close up, baby carried by woman
FILE - AUGUST 2012, CHAD
9. Close up, baby being held by person with bandaged hands
FILE - NOVEMBER 2012, SOMALIA
10. Close up, two children looking at camera
FILE - MARCH 2013, LEBANON
11. Close up, two boys looking at camera
FILE – 2011, LAOS
12. Close up, child in pink shirt
FILE - APRIL 201, MALI
13.Tilt down, women in dresses holding children
FILE - 2011, INDIA
14. Med shot, children in school uniforms
FILE – 2012, GHANA
15. Close up, baby sleeping at breast, Ghana, 2012
FILE – 2011, LAOS
16. Med shot, mother and baby girl with earrings
FILE – 2012, GHANA
17. Wide shot, four children
FILE - 2011, INDIA
18. Med shot, mother looking right at camera, holding baby
19. Med shot, mother holding baby, with blue hat
FILE – DATE AND PLACE UNKNOWN
20. Close up, baby with white bonnet
21. Close up, child receiving medication
22. Med shot, child being measured
23. Close up, baby looking right at camera
FILE – 2013, BANGLADESH
24. Various shots , community health care givers
FILE – 2013, BRAZIL
25. Med shot, women nursing baby in hospital
26. Close up, baby in hospital crib
FILE – 2013, ETHIOPIA
27. Various shots, community workers
FILE - NOVEMBER 2012, SOMALIA
28. Med shot, child being held by mom in striped blouse
FILE – DATE AND PLACE UNKNOWN
29. Wide shot, mothers with their swaddled children
FILE - DEMOCRATIC REPULIC OF THE CONGO, APRIL 2012
30. Med shot, lethargic child in arms of mother
FILE - AUGUST 2013, CHAD
31. Med shot, malnourished baby getting measured
FILE - DECEMBER 2012, LAOS
32. Med shot, child getting fed by medical worker
33. Med shot, girl in pink getting being given oral drops
FILE – SEPTEMBER 2012, MALAWI
34. Wide shot, in line to be weighed
FILE – 2011
35. Wide shot, group gets medical care
FILE - 2011, INDIA
36. Close, baby given oral drops, India, 2011
FILE - DECEMBER 2012, LAOS
37. Wide shot, health care worker talking with mother holding child
FILE – 2013, ETHIOPIA
38. Wide shot, worker inoculates baby on lap of mother
FILE - NOVEMBER 2012, SOMALIA
39. Med shot, worker in black, inoculates baby on mother’s lap
FILE - DECEMBER 2012, LAOS
40. Tilt up, child gets measured up to mother’s face, Laos, 2012
A new UNICEF report examining trends in child mortality shows that if efforts aren’t increased the world will not meet Millennium Development Goal 4- the goal to cut the rate of children’s preventable deaths by two thirds by 2015. Worse still, if current trends continue, the goal will not be reached until 2028.
The cost of inaction is alarmingly high:
If the global community does not take immediate action, in the coming years, the number of children who could die from preventable causes is a staggering 35 million.
It’s a sobering prediction.
But since 1990, with the collective efforts from governments, civil society and the private sector, some significant progress has been made to reduce preventable child deaths. And in fact, some of the world’s poorest countries have made the strongest gains in child survival.
In Bangladesh, the under-five mortality decreased by 72 percent from 1990 to 2012. Immunization programs, treatments for diarrheoa and vitamin deficiencies, and expanding a network of community health workers has improved the quality of healthcare for women and children.
In Brazil, promoting breastfeeding and expanding immunization is one of the reasons the under five mortality rate decreased by 77 percent from 1990 to 2012.
And in Ethiopia, a government program that deploys 38,000 paid female health extension workers has helped the country reduce under five deaths a dramatic 67 percent.
But much more needs to be done.
Pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria remain the leading causes of child deaths globally, and undernutrition contributes to almost half of those deaths.
As a leading global advocate for children, UNICEF is calling for focused efforts and increased investments to end preventable child deaths.
With concerted action, sound strategies, adequate resources and strong political the world can renew and revitalize the commitment to child survival. A promise can be renewed.
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