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STORY: UN / EBOLA BANBURY
TRT: 3.10
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV / FILE
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE –UNMEER - 2 NOVEMBER 2014, GUINEA:
1. Various shots, Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) and Dr. Bruce Aylward from the WHO inspecting WFP run logistics base
10 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
“The number one priority is to stop Ebola as fast as possible. That’s really on the forefront of everyone’s mind in UNMEER. It’s all about stopping the disease, reducing transmissions, ending the crisis, protecting the communities, avoiding future deaths. Doing that is complicated. It’s difficult. It requires a lot of effort. It’s going to be very much national governments that take the lead with strong United Nations support.”
FILE –UNMEER - 2 NOVEMBER 2014, GUINEA :
3. Med shot, worker digging trenches for WFP run logistics base
4. Various shots, MSF run Ebola treatment unit in Gueckedou
10 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
“We basically have to do two things – one first and then the other. The first thing we have to do is have sustained, reduced numbers of people getting the virus. Right now, we’re facing increases, increases, increases. We have to turn that around so we have, for a sustained period, reduced transmissions. And that requires one kind of approach. That’s just half the job though. Once we do that, we have to drive it all the way down to zero, so there are no new cases of this, no one with Ebola anywhere in these three countries or anywhere in the world.”
FILE –UNMEER - 2 NOVEMBER 2014, GUINEA :
6. Various shots, departure from airfield in Nzerekone
10 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
“What I’m most alarmed by, what’s most disconcerting, is the presence of the Ebola virus, the disease that’s killing people, in remote areas that we don’t yet have access to. As we get more and more out in the countryside, we’re finding more and more cases of the disease, more communities affected. So I’m deeply concerned that the true numbers of people affected by the virus, dying of it, are higher than the numbers being reported.”
FILE – UNMEER - 3 NOVEMBER 2014, SIERRA LEONE
8. Med shot, Banbury visiting graveyard for Ebola victims
9. SOUNDUP (English) Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
"30, 37, they are all in their 20s and 30s. One 7-year-old, 40, 50, 12, yeah, it's so sad."
10 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
“We’re getting more and more resources – material resources, human resources, financial resources. But we don’t have everything we need. We need more – we need more of all of those. We need more people. We need more material. And we need more funding.”
FILE – UNMEER - 3 NOVEMBER 2014, SIERRA LEONE
11. Various shots, Banbury meeting with Ebola survivors
12. SOUNDUP (English) Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
"I have had many meetings, and I have to say this is the happiest one I have been to in all my travels. To be here, with all of you survivors. I am so happy to see you here. We will, we absolutely will defeat Ebola in Sierra Leone and in this region."
The Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Anthony Banbury said that “the number one priority is to stop Ebola as fast as possible”, as World Health Organization (WHO) today (11 Nov) reported that efforts to contain the outbreak in West Africa are being hampered by cumbersome diagnostic tests.
WHO noted that standard tests used in mobile and other laboratories need 2 to 6 hours to test for Ebola and cost around $100, but these requirements are difficult to meet in resource-constrained West African settings, thus severely limiting testing capacity.
In an interview at the UN Headquarters on Monday, Banbury said “it’s all about stopping the disease, reducing transmissions, ending the crisis, protecting the communities, avoiding future deaths. Doing that is complicated. It’s difficult. It requires a lot of effort. It’s going to be very much national governments that take the lead with strong United Nations support.”
Banbury –who is in New York this week to brief Member States- added he is “deeply concerned that the true numbers of people affected by the virus, dying of it, are higher than the numbers being reported.”
According to WHO statistics as of a week ago, there are more than 13,000 reported Ebola cases in eight countries since the outbreak began, with nearly 5,000 reported deaths.
Banbury also said “we’re getting more and more resources – material resources, human resources, financial resources. But we don’t have everything we need. We need more – we need more of all of those. We need more people. We need more material. And we need more funding.”
He explained that the response needed is more of what the international community can provide, citing the expertise required on myriad fronts, ranging from communications, medical, construction to engineering needs, as well as resource intensive needs such as treatment and care facilities, and the staff, supplies, logistics support for them.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP), meanwhile, reported that it has reached its target of 1.3 million people in the three Ebola affected countries – Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
WFP said it is now reviewing its requirements to broaden its response to address the food security and nutrition challenges of Ebola-affected communities based on the latest available assessments.
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported that in Sierra Leone, the first nine community care centres has now been completed, and welcomed them as “critical elements in taking the fight against Ebola into the heart of communities, where the agency believes the battle against the virus would be won.”
UNICEF also reported that in Sierra Leone, its social mobilization work has put out 200,000 posters, 400,000 factsheets and sent some 1.5 million text messages.
