WHO / WORLD IMMUNIZATION WEEK ADVANCER

With the slogan “Immunization for a healthy future. Know, Check, Protect”, the World Health Organization and its partners around the globe are encouraging people to learn more about which vaccines are needed to prevent deadly illnesses, to check to see if their family’s immunizations are up- to-date, and to seek out vaccination services so that all family members are protected. WHO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:05
• Production Date: 23 April 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES; DISEASE PREVENTION; DISEASE CONTROL
• MAMS Id: U140423d

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STORY: WHO / WORLD IMMUNIZATION WEEK ADVANCER
TRT: 3.05
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 22 APRIL 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE

Shotlist

APRIL 2014, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

1. Various shots, babies being vaccinated

22 APRIL 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. SOUNDBITE (English), Dr Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, Director, WHO Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals:
“Vaccines are a powerful tool to prevent disease. And the benefits of vaccines are fully reaped when all individuals in a community are vaccinated. So WHO would like to encourage, newborns, infants, adolescents, adults to get the vaccinations that they need so that we can get rid of the diseases that affect some of our populations.”

MARCH 2014, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

3. Various shots, mobile immunization center

22 APRIL 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

4. SOUNDBITE (French), Dr Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, Director, WHO Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals:
“There was an incredible evolution in the vaccination program. When the program was established in 1974 by the World Health Assembly we had only 6 vaccines, essentially for children. Today, we have 22 vaccines.”

APRIL 2014, JAKARTA, INDONESIA

5. Various shots, vaccination in a hospital

22 APRIL 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

6. SOUNDBITE (French), Dr Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, Director, WHO Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals:
“WHO has chosen the theme: “Are you up to date with your vaccination?” because we want to see every individual in every community protected from diseases that we have vaccines for. As you know, we have vaccines that protect children, including infants. We have vaccines against diseases that attack adolescents and we even have vaccines to offer to adults.”

APRIL 2014, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL

7. Various shots, campaign of HPV vaccination in a school for adolescent girls

22 APRIL 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

8. SOUNDBITE (French), Dr Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, Director, WHO Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals:
“There are still lots of children who die from measles, especially in Africa. It is unacceptable, more than 100 000 deaths from measles, while for 52 years there is an available vaccine that has been widely used for the last 52 years across the world.”

APRIL 2014, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL

9. Close up, nurse preparing an injection
10. Med shot, teenage girl receiving injection

Storyline

This year, with the slogan “Immunization for a healthy future. Know, Check, Protect”, the World Health Organization and its partners around the globe are encouraging people to learn more about which vaccines are needed to prevent deadly illnesses, to check to see if their family’s immunizations are up- to-date, and to seek out vaccination services so that all family members are protected.

World Immunization Week, which takes place in the last week of April every year, is an opportunity to encourage people to take action to ensure that more children, and increasingly people in other age groups, are immunized against deadly and debilitating diseases.

Today, immunization averts 2-3 million deaths each year from diseases such as diphtheria, measles, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, rotavirus diarrhoea, rubella and tetanus.

One important driver of this progress has been the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), which celebrates its 40th anniversary in May 2014.

At the global level, EPI brings together partners to work towards ensuring that everyone has the chance to be fully immunized.

Priority is given to some 40 nations where routine immunization coverage is lowest, and to the districts within those countries where children are least protected.

Before EPI, just 5 per cent of the world’s children were receiving basic immunizations. Now this figure stands at more than 80 per cent.

Still, today, more than 22 million of the world’s children (about one-fifth of infants) are still not being immunized with basic vaccines.

The World Health Assembly endorsed the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) in May 2012. The Action Plan aims to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines for people in all communities.