18 Jul 2012

UNAIDS / COMBATTING HIV-AIDS

Individual nurses like Sister Mamsy Nyandeni are changing the face of AIDS treatment. UNAIDS

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STORY: UNAIDS / COMBATTING HIV-AIDS  
TRT: 2.13
SOURCE: UNAIDS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: FILE

SHOTLIST:

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

1. Wide shot, Sister Mamsy walking on road
2. Wide shots, clinic
3. Various shots, Sister Mamsy enters clinic
4. Med shot, Sister Mamsy in her office
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sister Mamsy Nyandeni, nurse:
"Before even if I could see that this patient needs the ARVs I could not give the ARVS."
6. Med shot, Sister Mamsy and Lucky Ncube greet each other
7. Med shot, Lucky Ncube takes ARV bottles out of plastic bag
8. Close up, pills
9. Close up, Lucky Ncube
10. Med shot, Sister Mamsy taking out pills of tray into bottle
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sister Mamsy Nyandeni, nurse:
"Now I'm happy I can do it myself."
12. Various shots, Lucky Ncube at his home taking his ARVs pills
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucky Ncube, HIV Treatment patient:
"After I take these ARVs my body becomes right."

RECENT - 26 JUNE 2012, BEIJING, CHINA

14. Wide shot, man getting an HIV test
15. Tilt down from nurse giving HIV test to mans arm

RECENT – 14 JUNE 2012, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS 
"Our treatment coverage will increase, and continue to increase and that's why I think it is important for us to mobilize all our energy to achieve 15 million by 2015."

FILE - JUNE 2012, KAMPALA, UGANDA

17. Various shots, ARV production plant

FILE – 22 FEBRUARY 2012, ACCRA, GHANA

18. Med shot, Charity feeding her son Jenai
19. Med shot, Charity and Jenai

FILE– APRIL 2012, MEXICO

20. Wide shot, fair
21 Med shot, handing over condoms
22. Close up, young man looking ahead

RECENT – SOUTH AFRICA, CAPRISA

23. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Salim Abdool-Karim, Director, Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA):
"The single biggest sea change in our understanding of how we are going to end this HIV epidemic has come from the discovery that antiretroviral can prevent HIV."

FILE / 11 NOVEMBER 2011, LESOTHO

24. Med shot, nurse and patient
25. Close up, pills 
26. Various shots, man handing out pills in clinic
27. Close up, mother and child

STORYLINE:

Individual nurses like Sister Mamsy Nyandeni are changing the face of AIDS treatment.

For years Sister Mamsy felt frustrated because she didn't have the authority to give antiretroviral therapy to people living with HIV.

SOUNDBITE (English) Sister Mamsy Nyandeni, nurse:
"Before even if I could see that this patient needs the ARVs I could not give the ARVS."

But recently South Africa has accredited nearly 2,500 new HIV treatment sites and vastly expanded the number of health care providers who can prescribe ARVs.

SOUNDBITE (English) Sister Mamsy Nyandeni, nurse:
"Now I'm happy I can do it myself."

More than 8 million people living with HIV are now receiving ARVs in low and middle income countries. That's more people than ever before and a 20 percent increase in just one year.

SOUNDBITE (English) Lucky Ncube, HIV Treatment patient:
"After I take these ARVs my body becomes right."

If treatment coverage continues to expand the world is on track to reach a key milestone in the drive to end AIDS

SOUNDBITE (English) Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS 
"Our treatment coverage will increase, and continue to increase and that's why I think it is important for us to mobilize all our energy to achieve 15 million by 2015."

Around the world new infections among children have declined nearly 25 percent over two years.

New infections among adults have also dropped dramatically and now research is revolutionizing the use of treatment.

SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Salim Abdool-Karim, Director, Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA):
"The single biggest sea change in our understanding of how we are going to end this HIV epidemic has come from the discovery that antiretroviral can prevent HIV."

These findings are making it ever more important to ensure that HIV treatment is scaled up rapidly and people have access to prevention.

Filed under UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.