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STORY: GENEVA / TROPICAL DISEASES
TRT: 2.53
SOURCE: WHO / MERCK & CO., INC
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 JANUARY 2012, PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
FILE – 2011, PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, exterior Palais des Nations
15 JANUARY 2012, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, press briefing
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. Close up, journalists going over report
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Lorenzo Savioli, Director, Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, WHO:
“In this report we have the evidence that over 700 million treatments were delivered regularly, every year to people in need, to the poorest people in the poorest section on the world. The best treatments for the poorest people are delivered every year in a regular way.”
3. Cutaway, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Lorenzo Savioli, Director, Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, WHO:
“Indeed Africa in terms of individuals more than one disease is by far the continent where the numbers of people infected is very high, but in terms of numbers, true numbers, Asia is where really the burden of disease is the highest.”
5. Cutaway, journalist
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lorenzo Savioli, Director, Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, WHO:
“25 years ago we had 2.5 million of people infected; today we have a little over 500 in 4 countries of which 96% is in South-Sudan. So the situation is changed dramatically with good public health principles: identifying each case, containment of case, treating the legs where necessary, filtering the water so people do not drink the intermediate host of these parasites and assuring that each patient is contained.”
7. Cutaway, report
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lorenzo Savioli, Director, Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, WHO:
“Dengue is increasing globally; there is a spread of the vectors associated with Dengue. There is a significant spread; this is linked to climate change of course, and increasing transport around the world. We see outbreaks of not just Dengue itself but also of such as Arbovirus also in Europe.”
FILE – WHO - DATE UNKNOWN – PAKISTAN
9. Med shot, man suffering Dengue in bed
10. Med shot, Doctor examines a patient with dengue
11. Wide shot, insecticide spaying in street from big trucks
12. Med shot, man fumigating house
13. Med shot, man collecting larvae’s from water tank
14. Close up, larvae in water
FILE –2010-2011 – WHO - TOGO
15. Close up, Buruli Ulcer skin test on a woman
FILE –2010-2011 – WHO - CAMEROON
16. Close up, patient with affected hand, status after surgery and healing
FILE –2010-2011 – WHO - BENIN
17. Med shot, sample collection on affected patient on the leg
FILE –2010-2011 – WHO – GHANA
18. Wide shot, surgery ward with patient being treated for Buruli Ulcer
FILE –2010-2011 – WHO - TSEVIÉ HOSPITAL, TOGO
19. Med shot, physiotherapy on the arm of a woman in Tsevié hospital
FILE – DATE UNKNOWN - MERCK & CO., INC - PEMBA ISLAND, TANZANIA
20. Wide shot, people near water
21. Med shot, mother washing child
22. Close up, snail in water (vector of the disease)
A report launched today (16 January) by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, showed that a new momentum in controlling, eliminating and eradicating some of the longest-term scourges faced by humankind that take their greatest toll among the poor, moving the world closer to the elimination of many of them.
Dengue, leprosy, river blindness and guinea-worm disease are among the 17 now targeted by a new global strategy, supported by worldwide partners, that provides a steady supply of quality medications.
At a press briefing launching the report, Lorenzo Savioli, Director of the Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases at WHO said that the report showed evidence that over 700 millions treatments were delivered regularly, every year to people in need, to the poorest people in the poorest section on the world.
According to the report, two diseases are targeted for global eradication, dracunculiasis, or guinea-worm disease – which can produce a parasite as long as two or three feet – by 2015, and yaws, which attacks skin, bone and cartilage, by 2020. Targets are set for the regional elimination of several other diseases in 2015 and in 2020.
Saviolo said that Africa - - in terms of individual more than one disease -- was “by far” the continent where the numbers of people infected was the highest. But in terms of numbers, Asia is where the burden of tropical diseases was the highest.
In 2010 alone, 711 million people received treatment for at least one of four target diseases, including lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases, the report said.
And when it comes to Dengue, Saviolo said that the disease was “increasing globally”, and that there was a significant spread linked to climate change, as well as increasing transport around the world. He added that “we see outbreaks of not just Dengue itself but also of such as Arbovirus also in Europe”.
Other targeted diseases include rabies, trachoma, buruli ulcer, chagas disease, human African trypanosomiasis, leishmaniases, taenaisis/cysticercosis, echinococcosis / hydatidosis, foodborne trematodiases and lymphatic filariasis, the WHO report said.
