6 Jul 2012

UN / AIDS

For the second year in a row, an additional 1.1 million people in sub-Saharan Africa received antiretroviral therapy, reaching a total of 6.2 million people across the region in 2011, UNAIDS reported today. In less than a decade, access to HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa has increased more than 100-fold. UNAIDS

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STORY: UN / AIDS
TRT: 1.46
SOURCE: UNAIDS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / 26 JUNE 2012, KWANDENGEZI CLINIC, KWAZULU-NATAL PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA / APRIL 2012, GWAGWALADA, NIGERIA / JUNE 2012, KAMPALA, UGANDA

SHOTLIST:

26 JUNE 2012, KWANDENGEZI CLINIC, KWAZULU-NATAL PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA

1.	Med shot, Nurse Mamsy Nyandeni walking to work
2.	Wide shot, clinic
3.	Various shots, Mamsy entering clinic
4.	Close up, ARV
5.	Med shot, Mamsy taking out pills
6.	Close up, pills on tray
7.	Med shot, patient and nurse
8.	SOUNDBITE (English) Sister Mamsy Nyandeni, Nurse:
"Before even if I could see that this patient needs the ARVs, I could not give the ARVS. They were not available and I was not trained."

APRIL 2012, GWAGWALADA, NIGERIA

9.	Wide shot, maternity clinic exterior
10.	Wide shot, patients in waiting room 
11.	Med shot, two women and a baby
12.	Close up, baby
13.	Med shot, nurse with flip chart
14.	SOUNDUP (English) Nurse:
"The virus enters inside your baby."
15.	Close up, woman listening
16.	SOUNDUP (English) Nurse:
"Do we understand all?"
17.	Close up of flip chart
18.	SOUNDUP (English) Nurse:
"Now you are saying yes, and even if you must do, it has to be with condom."
19.	Med shot, women listening

RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

20.	SOUNDBITE (English) Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director:
"We are seeing very good events happening in Africa for example where the countries are mobilizing themselves to really come with a new narrative in term of owning their own epidemic and tapping on domestic resources."

21.	JUNE 2012, KAMPALA, UGANDA

22.	Various shots of ARV production plant

STORYLINE:

By the end of 2011, an estimated 56 percent of people eligible for treatment in sub-Saharan Africa were accessing it. There was a 19% increase in treatment coverage across the region between 2010 and 2011 alone.

According to preliminary estimates from country reports, the most dramatic progress has been seen in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya. In 2011, at least 300 000 people in South Africa were newly enrolled in treatment; 100 000 in Kenya; and 150 000 in Zimbabwe.

Many other countries, including Botswana, Namibia and Swaziland have already achieved high levels of treatment coverage.

Expanded treatment access in sub-Saharan Africa is due, in part, to a major drop in the cost of HIV treatment regimens. In 2000, the cost of a year's supply of first-line HIV treatment was about US $10 000 per person; today, it is less than $100 per person.

UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibé, said that "countries are mobilizing themselves to really come with a new narrative in term of owning their own epidemic and tapping on domestic resources."
 
Access to medicines will be among the key themes addressed at the 19th African Union (AU) Summit on 14-15 July. Heads of State and Government attending the Summit will discuss a new roadmap to accelerate AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria responses by 2015.

The roadmap addresses, among other issues, the continent's dependency on external sources for life-saving medicines. Currently, more than 80% of HIV drugs dispensed in Africa are imported. A vast majority of HIV medicines keeping Africans alive are paid for through external financial aid.