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STORY: UNICEF / NARROWING THE GAPS
TRT: 02:29
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: EMBARGOED UNTIL 00:01 GMT, 28 JUNE, 2017; CREDIT UNICEF FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: JUNE 2016-MAY 2017, KASUNGU DISTRICT, MALAWI; BALKH PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN; ABUROC, SOUTH SUDAN; MUDUG REGION, PUNTLAND STATE; MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
29-31 MAY, 2017, CHANTHUNTHU COMMUNITY, KASUNGU DISTRICT, MALAWI
1. Wide shot mothers walking through field
2. Wide shot women arriving at clinic
3. Wide shot, mother and health worker weighing child
4. Close up, health worker looking at scale
5. Close up, health worker noting down weight
6. Wide shot, health worker consulting with mother about malaria medication
7. Close up, child diagnosed with malaria
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Joster Banda, IMCI District Coordinator, Kasungu District:
“Because of integrated community case management (ICCM) offered by health surveillance assistants in Kasungu district, we have managed to reduce the child under 5 mortality by half, that 133 per 1,000 live births in 2010 to 60 per 1000 in 2015 according to DHIS, so I think that’s what ICCM has contributed in our district.”
APRIL 2017, KHULM DISTRICT, BALKH PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN
9. Wide shot, community health workers consulting with local community members on health issues
10. Wide shot, community health worker explaining oral rehydration salts to community members
11. Close up, syringe and vaccine
12. Med shot, community health worker vaccinating girl
13. Med shot, health worker hands girl information
10 MAY – 15 MAY 2017, ABUROC, UPPER NILE, SOUTH SUDAN
14. Wide shot, Women & children queue for WFP registration
15. Med shot, A UNICEF nutrition volunteers measures MUAC of a young child
16. Close up, A UNICEF nutrition volunteers measures MUAC of a young child
17. Wide, a community mobiliser explains WASH and breastfeeding to mothers and children
18. Close up, pictograms discussing breastfeeding
19. Wide shot, UNICEF Non-food item distribution point
20. Close up, woman receives NFI kit, including insecticide-treated net
4 MAY 2017, GALKAYO, MUDUG REGION, PUNTLAND STATE
21. Wide shot, UNICEF mobile health team providing services to families displaced by drought
22. Close up, health worker providing vaccination to child
9-10 JUNE, 2016, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
23. Wide up, pregnant woman arrives at home of UNICEF-trained Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA)
24. Wide shot, TBA welcomes woman
25. Wide shot, pregnant woman sits down
26. Close up, TBA offers antenatal care to pregnant woman
27. Close up, TBA offers antenatal care to pregnant woman
Investing in the health and survival of the most deprived children and communities provides more value for money, saving almost twice as many lives for every US$1 million spent as equivalent investments in less deprived groups, according to a new UNICEF analysis.
Narrowing the Gaps: The power of investing in the poorest children presents compelling new evidence that backs up an unconventional prediction UNICEF made in 2010: the higher cost of reaching the poorest children with life-saving, high-impact health interventions would be outweighed by greater results.
The study shows that improvements in coverage of life-saving interventions among poor groups helped decrease child mortality in these countries nearly three times faster than among non-poor groups.
The study lists Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Malawi as some of the countries with high rates of under-five mortality where focus on the most deprived has made a difference for children.
SOUNDBITE (English) Joster Banda, IMCI District Coordinator, Kasungu District:
“Because of integrated community case management (ICCM) offered by health surveillance assistants in Kasungu district, we have managed to reduce the child under 5 mortality by half, that 133 per 1,000 live births in 2010 to 60 per 1000 in 2015 according to DHIS, so I think that’s what ICCM has contributed in our district.”
Between 1990 and 2015, under-five mortality decreased by half in Afghanistan and by 74 per cent in both Bangladesh and Malawi.
The study selected six key health interventions as indicators: the use of insecticide-treated bed nets, early initiation of breastfeeding, antenatal care, full vaccination, the presence of a skilled birth attendant during delivery, and seeking care for children with diarrhea, fever or pneumonia.
Unless progress on reducing child mortality accelerates, by 2030 almost 70 million children will die before reaching their fifth birthday.
