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STORY: UNMEER / BANBURY NABARRO
TRT: 1.24
SOURCE: UNMEER / UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 NOVEMBER 2014, ACCRA, GHANA / FILE
FILE – UNICEF - 7 NOVEMBER 2014 MAKENI, BOMBALI DISTRICT, SIERRA LEONE
1. Various shots, health workers training how to put on protective gear
2. Med shot, health workers wearing protective gear walking outside
26 NOVEMBER 2014, ACCRA, GHANA
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Banbury, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER):
‘Where we’ve been able to put elements of the response into place, we’ve seen dramatic improvements in the situation. So, we are very heartened by that. It shows the strategy works. Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to put the elements of the response in place everywhere, and where it’s lacking we see the significant or very situation in many of these communities. That’s got to be the focus of our efforts going forward; spreading out our geographic response.”
FILE – UNICEF -7 NOVEMBER 2014 MAKENI, BOMBALI DISTRICT, SIERRA LEONE
4. Various shots, health workers training how to put on protective gear
5. Med shot, health worker applying vaccine
26 NOVEMBER 2014, ACCRA, GHANA
6. SOUNDBITE (English) David Nabarro, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Ebola:
“I see absolutely no donor fatigue. The extraordinary thing about this is that the whole world is willing to have a quick and successful response to this outbreak. They want to see it treated at source; they want to see the countries being able to recover quickly; they want the world not to be threatened by a disease that causes a lot of fear and leads frequently to people to take extreme actions when they are nervous about getting Ebola. So, I actually think the world is on the side of those who are involved in this fight.”
FILE – UNICEF -20 SEPTEMBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
7. Various shots, community health worker pastes sign on door as part of house-to-house Ebola prevention campaign
In the lead-up to the 1 December target set by the mission, the top United Nations officials leading the fight against Ebola gave an overview of the current state of the response.
In an interview at the headquarters of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) in Accra, Ghana, the Head of UNMEER, Anthony Banbury, said on Wednesday (26 Nov) that where elements of the response were put into place, “we’ve seen dramatic improvements in the situation.”
Banbury said this “shows the strategy works.”
Unfortunately, he added “we haven’t been able to put the elements of the response in place everywhere, and where it’s lacking we see the significant or very situation in many of these communities.”
The UNMEER Chief said “that’s got to be the focus of our efforts going forward; spreading out our geographic response.”
The 1 December target aims to try to get 70 per cent of the cases isolated and treated, and 70 per cent of the deceased safely buried within 60 days from the beginning of October.
Dr. David Nabarro, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special Envoy on Ebola, said he sees “absolutely no donor fatigue” and remarked that “the whole world is willing to have a quick and successful response to this outbreak.”
Nabarro said the international community wants to see Ebola “treated at source; they want to see the countries being able to recover quickly; they want the world not to be threatened by a disease that causes a lot of fear and leads frequently to people to take extreme actions when they are nervous about getting Ebola.”
According to the UN World Health Organization (WHO), a total of 15,935 cases have been confirmed in Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Spain and the United States and two previously affected countries of Nigeria and Senegal as of 23 November, with 5,689 reported deaths.
