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STORY: UN / SALAMA EBOLA
TRT: 1.39
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV
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LANGAUGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 03 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
13 OCTOBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Zoom in, dais
3. Med shot, journalist
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Salama, UNICEF’s Global Ebola Emergency Coordinator:
“If we don’t stop the outbreak, if we don’t defeat Ebola, it is going to defeat everything that we’ve been doing in support of children collectively in these countries for many years. And we are already seeing that detrimental impact on education services, on primary health care services. So for us the number one priority for the next few months has to be to put all f our efforts, all of our staffing, all of our resources, behind stopping the outbreak.”
5. Med shot, journalist
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Salama, UNICEF’s Global Ebola Emergency Coordinator:
“This is a twin epidemic. It is the epidemic of a virus, but also an epidemic of global fear and ignorance. And with fear and ignorance, sadly comes stigma and discrimination. We must tackle both epidemics to be successful. The fear of course manifests itself in travel bans and various restrictions all around the world and is also present at the local level.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Salama, UNICEF’s Global Ebola Emergency Coordinator:
“Nigeria and Senegal have put out their outbreaks. The rate of new infections in Liberia appears to be stabilizing if not declining. However, because the three countries represent one outbreak zone, or epidemiological block, in public health terms, we will not be able to rest anywhere in the world until the last embers of the outbreak are extinguished at the source simultaneously in all three countries.”
9. Zoom out, end of presser
UNICEF’s Global Ebola Emergency Coordinator, Peter Salama, told a news conference in New York today (3 Nov) that if the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is not stopped, “it is going to defeat everything that we’ve been doing in support of children collectively in these countries for many years.”
Salama said “we are already seeing that detrimental impact on education services, on primary health care services” and stressed that “the number one priority for the next few months has to be to put all f our efforts, all of our staffing, all of our resources, behind stopping the outbreak.”
The UNICEF official said this was “a twin epidemic” as it is “the epidemic of a virus, but also an epidemic of global fear and ignorance.”
He said that “with fear and ignorance, sadly comes stigma and discrimination” and underlined that to be successful, “we must tackle both epidemics.”
Salama noted that “Nigeria and Senegal have put out their outbreaks” while “the rate of new infections in Liberia appears to be stabilizing if not declining.”
However, he said. “because the three countries represent one outbreak zone, or epidemiological block, in public health terms, we will not be able to rest anywhere in the world until the last embers of the outbreak are extinguished at the source simultaneously in all three countries.”
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the deadliest in history.
Nearly 5,000 people have died since March, and children are Ebola's most vulnerable victims. UNICEF estimates that 3,700 children have been orphaned by Ebola.
UNICEF and its partners have reached more than 5.5 million people in West Africa—in Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone. UNICEF is airlifting essential supplies, distributing vital health information and caring for children and families. With early treatment, they can survive this disease.
