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STORY: GENEVA / YELLOW FEVER
TRT: 2:15
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 7 JULY 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
FILE - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Aerial shot, Palais des Nations
7 JULY 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Pan right, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Bruce Aylward, Executive Director, Outbreaks and Health Emergencies, World Health Organization:
“The situation right now in central Africa remains deeply concerning. What we are dealing with is a yellow fever, a dangerous disease that can cause explosive outbreaks.”
4. Med shot, reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Bruce Aylward, Executive Director, Outbreaks and Health Emergencies, World Health Organization:
“Since the beginning of 2016 we have had an unprecedented response to a yellow fever outbreak in Angola and just on the border areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo where nearly 14 and a half million people total have been vaccinated, but now over the next two months we have an opportunity, and we will try to, vaccinate 15 and half million people across Kinshasa, the capital city of Democratic Republic of the Congo, the border area between the two countries and then other areas of Angola in one of the largest yellow fever emergency response campaigns ever conducted.”
6. Med shot, reporter
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Bruce Aylward, Executive Director, Outbreaks and Health Emergencies, World Health Organization:
“The goal will be to stop all transmission in these key areas in advance of the high season for transmission later this year and thereby prevent explosive outbreaks in these major metropolises and potential international spread far beyond.”
FILE – JUNE 2016, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
8. Zoom in, healthcare facility
9. Med shot, doctor speaking to patient
10. Med shot, healthcare workers transfer vaccines
11. Zoom in, yellow fever vaccines
12. Wide shot, healthcare workers transfer vaccines
FILE – JUNE 2016, LUANDA, ANGOLA
13. Med shot, patient in hospital bed
14. Close up, test results
15. Wide shot, doctor discussing test results
16. Wide shot, healthcare worker vaccinating child
17. Med shot, aid worker registering children
18. Med shot, healthcare worker vaccinating child
19. Med shot, mother waiting to have children vaccinated
20. Med shot, healthcare worker vaccinating infant
21. Close up, girl
The World Health Organization (WHO) today (7 Jul) announced the launch of a “pre-emptive” vaccination campaign in the Congolese-Angolan border area in an effort to halt the yellow fever epidemic in the central African region and prevent the risk of further international spread.
WHO outbreaks director Bruce Aylward said the campaign would be “one of the largest yellow fever emergency response campaigns ever conducted” and will attempt to vaccinate over 15 million people in the Congolese capital Kinshasa and other border areas over the next 2 months. Aylward said his organization had “an unprecedented response” to a yellow fever outbreak in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since the beginning of 2016, but the two-month push came in advance of the high season for transmission to “prevent explosive outbreaks in these major metropolises and potential international spread far beyond.”
WHO said the initial phase of the campaign would focus on districts where there is high movement of people and intense trade activities, particularly the northern border districts of Angola and targeted border districts in neighbouring countries. It noted that important gains in preventive vaccination campaigns had been achieved but the lack of sufficient funds for field operational activities remained a challenge in both countries.
