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STORY: GENEVA / CHOLERA
TRT: 01:31
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 04 JULY 2017, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
RECENT - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Exterior, Palais des Nations
04 JULY 2017, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Christophe Boulierac, Spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“The current outbreak in South Sudan has spread to 23 counties across nine states, it is clearly an additional threat on children in a country where 1.1 million children are malnourished and almost 290,000 children suffer severe acute malnutrition.”
4. Close up, journalist
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Christophe Boulierac, Spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“Let me remind you that a child who is suffering from severe acute malnutrition is nine times more likely to die of disease than a well-nourished child. So having cholera and diarrhoea in countries where some children are so fragile because of malnutrition among other things, because of such a bad access to safe water is extremely worrying.”
6. Close up, journalist
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Christophe Boulierac, Spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“The current cholera outbreak in South Sudan which started in June 2016 has for the first time lasted through the entire dry season and it is projected to worsen as the new rainy season progresses.”
8. Close up, journalist
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Christophe Boulierac, Spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“About South Sudan, about 6,870 cases have been reported so far this year in 2017, the highest figure since 2014.”
10. Wide shot, spokespeople
Reporting on the cholera outbreaks in Yemen, South Sudan, Sudan and Somalia, UNICEF said Tuesday (4 Jul) that cholera can be deadly for children whose immune systems are compromised by malnutrition and make them therefore particularly vulnerable to diarrheal diseases.
Speaking to journalists in Geneva, Christophe Boulierac, Spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that “the current outbreak in South Sudan has spread to 23 counties across 9 states, it is clearly an additional threat on children in a country where 1.1 million children are malnourished and almost 290,000 children suffer severe acute malnutrition.”
Boulierac informed that about 6,870 cases have been reported so far this year in 2017, the highest figure since 2014. The reported number of cases within the first six months of 2017 already constitute a 73 per cent increase from the total number of cases reported in 2016.
Children and teenagers have been most affected by the outbreak, constituting 51 per cent of the cases.
UNICEF spokesperson said that “a child who is suffering from severe acute malnutrition is nine times more likely to die of disease than a well-nourished child. So having cholera and diarrhoea in countries where some children are so fragile because of malnutrition among other things, because of such a bad access to safe water this is extremely worrying.”
South Sudan is currently experiencing one of the most protracted, widespread cholera outbreaks in recent history. Boulierac said that “the current cholera outbreak in South Sudan which started in June 2016 has for the first time lasted through the entire dry season and it is projected to worsen as the new rainy season progresses.”
According to UNICEF, so far in 2017 a total of 174 deaths have been reported with 16 among children under 5 years of age and 32 among children between 5-18 years in South Sudan.
