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STORY: GENEVA / EBOLA
TRT: 3.18
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 SEPTEMBER 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
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1. Med shot, exterior- Palais des Nations
16 SEPTEMBER 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, press room
3. Close up, Ebola periodical, pull-out to periodical in lap.
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator:
" First we must prevent the complete collapse of health systems in the affected countries. Already it is estimated that more people have died from secondary aspects, for example malaria, tuberculosis or in child birth or from chronic illness than have died from ebola. Secondly the food security situation in some parts of the most affected countries is of great concern. The economic slowdown, disruption to markets and imposition of quarantine, including roadblocks in some areas are reducing the availability of food and the purchasing power of households, and remember, these are some of the poorest countries in the world. Third, support for water and sanitation services will be critical as the recent heavy rains have increased the risk of waterborne diseases, and communities in quarantine areas will continue to have basic needs."
5. Cutaway, hands typing
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruce Aylward, Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization:
“This health crisis we face is unparalleled in modern times. The gravity of the situation is difficult to get across with just a few numbers, but with five thousand now infected, twice the number when we met a couple of weeks ago, you start to get a sense of the rapid escalation now we're seeing the virus as it moves from what was a linear increase in cases to an almost exponential increase in cases."
7. Cutaway, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruce Aylward, Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization:
" We have this roadmap and a plan for today, but I want to highlight, we don't have one for tomorrow. We have not seen ebola in large urban centres like we see it now. We have not seen numbers escalate like we're seeing them today, which means this roadmap works if it's implemented today with a huge surge of international assistance and national assistance on the ground, a huge engagement of the communities in the implementation of some of these strategies and with that hopefully a turning in this epidemic and a dropping of disease."
9. Cutaway, journalists
10. Cutaway, journalists and computers
11. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, UN System Senior Coordinator for Ebola:
" We're going to establish a global Ebola response coalition which will be there to support and back-up one of the biggest ever international support operations that's ever been known, because we're going to get on top of this virus as quick as we possibly can"
12. Cutaway, cameramen
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruce Aylward, Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization, speaking in English:
`” The numbers can be kept in tens of thousands but that will going to require much faster escalation of response if we are to beat the escalation of the virus.”
13. Wide shot, press room
The United Nations (UN) said it needs one billion dollars to try to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
UN Emergency Coordinator, Valerie Amos spoke to journalists today (16 Sept)in Geneva of the urgency of preventing the complete collapse of the health systems in affected countries, ensuring the availability of food supplies and supporting water and sanitation services.
World Health Organization's (WHO) Assistant Director-General Bruce Aylward underlined the need for rapid action now. Describing the health crisis as "unparalleled in modern times", he said the doubling of the number of cases to five thousand in a couple of weeks gave a sense of the rapid escalation of the outbreak.
The number of reported cases had climbed to 4,985, including 2,461 deaths. Half of the infections and deaths occurred in the past 21 days.
Aylward pointed out that Ebola had never been seen in large urban centres and with escalating numbers that are seen today.
He also underlined the need for a huge surge of national and international assistance on the ground and a huge engagement of communities to reduce the incidence of the disease and a turning point in the epidemic."
David Nabarro, UN System Senior Coordinator for Ebola announced the launch of a global Ebola response coalition that will bring together humanitarian and financial agencies, governments, non-governmental organizations and the private sector in a bid to halt the disease.
The international coalition is to mount one of the biggest ever international support operations in history.
