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STORY: UN / EBOLA BANBURY NABARRO WRAP
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SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
13 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, ECOSOC chamber
3. Med shot, AU delegate
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
“As we adjust our strategy to the geographic dispersal of the disease, we need more Ebola treatment facilities, smaller ones, but more, located in a disperse manner; more community care centres; more partners on the ground to staff these centres, particularly given the critical management skills to safely manage these facilities. We need greater mobility for the teams, and we need money to pay for it all.” Med shot, Sierra Leone delegate
5. Med shot, Sierra Leone delegate
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
“Schools are closed, livelihoods have been lost across the region, markets dramatically impacted; the Prefect in Guéckédou talked to me about how there had been a thriving regional market in Guéckédou but now traders were afraid to even come to the town for fear of Ebola. The Economic Commission for Africa has reported that the reduction in mining activities in Sierra Leone has resulted in a 21 percent drop in government revenues. And in Guinea, coffee production is down by 50 percent.”
7. Med shot, Liberia delegate
8. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola:
“Like a shoal of fish moving suddenly when a new current comes along, we are having to be able together to adjust what we are doing in the light of new challenges as they emerge. And it is that ability for collective adjustment in the face of a changing situation that is now at the centre of the strategic effort right now.”
9. Pan left, ECOSOC
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
“We see more and more commitments of important capabilities, but we need to do more and we need to do it faster, otherwise Ebola will continue not only to pose great risk to the people of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, but also of Mali, where we’ve seen a new transmission case, a new chain of transmission posing risk to the people of that country, and now there is risk to all the countries of that region, and indeed the world, until the last case of Ebola is snuffed out.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
11. Close up, reporter writing on notepad
10 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
12. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola:
“The decisions made by individual countries in relation to who they admit and who they do not admit are sovereign decisions. However the advice of the World Health Organization has always been that to ban trouble from certain countries to other countries is not in keeping with best public health advice. Nevertheless, if countries wish to introduce certain kinds of restrictions, that is their choice.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
13. Close up, reporter writing on notepad
10 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
14. Med shot, end of meeting
There has been important progress made in the global fight against Ebola but a scaling-up in the overall response remains necessary if the deadly outbreak is to be fully stopped, top United Nations officials told the General Assembly today as they cautioned against complacency in tackling the disease.
Addressing an informal briefing the Assembly on the international community’s Ebola response to the outbreak, Anthony Banbury, the head of the UN emergency health mission tasked with coordinating the effort, known as UNMEER, observed that community-level action is one of the main reasons for the progress.
Banbury said “as we adjust our strategy to the geographic dispersal of the disease, we need more Ebola treatment facilities, smaller ones, but more, located in a disperse manner; more community care centres; more partners on the ground to staff these centres, particularly given the critical management skills to safely manage these facilities. We need greater mobility for the teams, and we need money to pay for it all.”
He also observed that during his recent trips to frontline countries in hard-hit West Africa, the respective Governments had repeatedly stressed the devastating impact the outbreak has had on every aspect of their societies, injecting fear into communities, leaving numerous orphans in its wake, as well as skyrocketing food prices, school closures, empty markets and collapsing Government revenues.
Banbury said “schools are closed, livelihoods have been lost across the region, markets dramatically impacted; the Prefect in Guéckédou talked to me about how there had been a thriving regional market in Guéckédou but now traders were afraid to even come to the town for fear of Ebola. The Economic Commission for Africa has reported that the reduction in mining activities in Sierra Leone has resulted in a 21 percent drop in government revenues. And in Guinea, coffee production is down by 50 percent.”
Echoing Banbury’s call for a scaled-up, agile response to the outbreak, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Ebola, Dr. David Nabarro, told the General Assembly that “like a shoal of fish moving suddenly when a new current comes along, we are having to be able together to adjust what we are doing in the light of new challenges as they emerge. And it is that ability for collective adjustment in the face of a changing situation that is now at the centre of the strategic effort right now.”
After the meeting, Banbury and Nabarro addressed reporters.
Banbury noted that Mali’s Ministry of Health has confirmed the country’s second fatal case of Ebola virus disease. The case occurred in a nurse who worked at a privately-run clinic in the capital city, Bamako.
He said “we see more and more commitments of important capabilities, but we need to do more and we need to do it faster, otherwise Ebola will continue not only to pose great risk to the people of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, but also of Mali, where we’ve seen a new transmission case, a new chain of transmission posing risk to the people of that country, and now there is risk to all the countries of that region, and indeed the world, until the last case of Ebola is snuffed out.”
Nabarro, asked about Morocco’s refusal to host Africa’s soccer Cup of Nations, said “the decisions made by individual countries in relation to who they admit and who they do not admit are sovereign decisions. However the advice of the World Health Organization has always been that to ban trouble from certain countries to other countries is not in keeping with best public health advice. Nevertheless, if countries wish to introduce certain kinds of restrictions, that is their choice.”
According to WHO’s latest statistics, there are more than 13,000 reported Ebola cases in eight countries since the outbreak began, with nearly 5,000 reported deaths. WHO is expected to release updated figures on the state of the outbreak later today.
