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STORY: UNICEF / WORLD IMMUNIZATION WEEK
TRT: 3.35
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV / UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 17 APRIL 2014, NEW YOUR CITY / FILE
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1. External shot, Unicef Headquarters
17 APRIL 2014, NEW YOUR CITY
2. Various shots, Vandelaer working in the office
3. SOUNDBITE (English), Jos Vandelaer, Head of UNICEF’s global Immunization programme:
“The World Immunization Week gives us time to pause and think about that – what is a power of immunization? But also to realize that around 20% of children – one child in five worldwide, doesn’t get immunized, and that we need to do more to also get these children immunized.”
26-27 NOVEMBER 2013, TACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES
4. Close up, baby receiving oral vaccine
5. Med shot, by being vaccinated
17 APRIL 2014, NEW YOUR CITY
6. SOUNDBITE (English), Jos Vandelaer, Head of UNICEF’s global Immunization programme:
“Resurgence of measles, resurgence of polio, is a sign that we didn’t do a good job. It is a sign that there is still a large number of kids who are not immunized. And we must do something about that. We must make sure that also these children are reached with immunization, that these children are also protected against diseases like polio, or like measles.”
5 - 6 OCTOBER 2013, MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA
7. Med shot, girl receiving a vaccine
17 APRIL 2014, NEW YOUR CITY
8. SOUNDBITE (English), Jos Vandelaer, Head of UNICEF’s global Immunization programme:
“The children who are not immunized when they fall sick, they also have no access to healthcare. So, not only they are not protected, but when they then fall sick their chances of not surviving are higher than for an average child. And that is because the children that are not immunized are children from marginalized populations, and very often the poor population in the country.”
5 - 6 OCTOBER 2013, MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA
9. Med shot, women with babies waiting for vaccination
17 APRIL 2014, NEW YOUR CITY
10. SOUNDBITE (English), Jos Vandelaer, Head of UNICEF’s global Immunization programme:
“We need to immunize on ongoing bases. We need to do a good job in immunizing children every year, year after year. We cannot afford to miss children with immunization because the viruses that cause diseases will find these children. And we will see polio come back; we will see measles come back.”
5 - 6 OCTOBER 2013, MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA
11. Wide shot, people with children waiting and immunization agents under the tree
12. Close up, baby being vaccinated
17 APRIL 2014, NEW YOUR CITY
13. SOUNDBITE (English), Jos Vandelaer, Head of UNICEF’s global Immunization programme:
“The uptake of new vaccines has been quite amazing in the last decades. And what we seeing is more vaccines getting introduced every day and we expect more countries to take o these new vaccines in the years to come.”
3- 14 NOVEMBER 2013, ABECHE, CHAD
14. Wide shot, hut with red cross on it
15. Baby being vaccinated in arm
16. Baby being vaccinated orally
17 APRIL 2014, NEW YOUR CITY
17. SOUNDBITE (English), Jos Vandelaer, Head of UNICEF’s global Immunization programme:
“Thanks to the GAVI alliance, in the poorest countries at least, lot of financial problems in introducing the new vaccines has been taken away. Countries, governments do co-finance new vaccines, like the vaccines against pneumonia or diarrhea, but the bulk of the cost of the vaccines itself has been paid for by the GAVI alliance.”
3- 14 NOVEMBER 2013, ABECHE, CHAD
18. Wide shot, motorcycle arriving
19. Med shot, motorcycle passenger passing coolers to agent
20. Wide shot, immunization campaign
21. Med shot, presenter with cartoon of vaccination
22. Close up, baby receiving a vaccine
Immunization today averts 2-3 million deaths each year from diseases such as diphtheria, measles, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, rotavirus diarrhoea, rubella and tetanus. However, in the eve of the World Immunization Week 2014, the chief of the Unicef’s Global Immunization Program, Jos Vandelaer, warned that one in five children worldwide does not get immunized.
“We must make sure that also these children are reached with immunization, that these children are also protected against diseases like polio, or like measles.” – added Vandelaer.
When it comes to immunization, the world hasn’t done a good job – said Vandelaer, pointing out at the recent resurgence of measles and polio.
“And we must do something about that. We must make sure that also these children are reached with immunization.” – said Vandelaer.
Children that were not immunized are likely coming from marginalized and poor populations, which means that they often do not have access to health care, making them even more likely to die from preventable diseases.
The immunization of children also needs to be done on ongoing basis, year after year.
“We cannot afford to miss children with immunization because the viruses that cause diseases will find these children. And we will see polio come back; we will see measles come back.” – explained Vandelaer.
Over the last several decades, development of new vaccines have been on the raise, said Valdelaer.
“And what we seeing is more vaccines getting introduced every day and we expect more countries to take o these new vaccines in the years to come.” – he added.
In 2000, World Health Organization, Unicef, World Bank and their partners have launched the “Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation” - GAVI Alliance in order to help vaccinate children in developing countries.
Since 2000, the GAVI Alliance has contributed to the immunization of an additional 370 million children, helping developing countries prevent more than 5.5 million future deaths from hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenza type B (Hib), measles, pertussis, pneumococcal disease, polio, rotavirus diarrhoea and yellow fever.
“Thanks to the GAVI Alliance, in the poorest countries at least, lot of financial problems in introducing the new vaccines has been taken away. Countries, governments do co-finance new vaccines, like the vaccines against pneumonia or diarrhea, but the bulk of the cost of the vaccines itself has been paid for by the GAVI alliance.” – said Vandelaer.
The theme of the World Immunization Week 2014 campaign is “Are you up-to-date?” The question is directed primarily at the public, and relates to whether people have all the vaccines they need.
