1 Dec 2012

WORLD AIDS DAY / PROGRESS

On this World AIDS Day (1 December), the UN celebrates "dramatic progress" over the past decade. UNICEF says an AIDS-free generation, once seemingly impossible, is within reach. The World Health Organization highlights this year's theme of 'Zero discrimination'. WHO / UNICEF

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STORY: WORLD AIDS DAY / PROGRESS
TRT: 3.45  
SOURCE: UNICEF / WHO / UNAIDS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
 
DATELINE: 29 NOVEMBER 2012, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / 21 NOVEMBER 2012, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

SHOTLIST:

FILE – WHO – NOVEMBER 2011, KHARTOUM, SUDAN

1. Various shots, voluntary counselling and testing activities

WHO – 29 NOVEMBER 2012, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of the World Health Organization's HIV Department: 
"We are seeing impressive global progress in the response to the AIDS epidemic. Fewer people are dying, fewer people are getting infected and many more people now have access to life saving treatment. Eight million people in 2012, we are now getting confident that we can achieve very ambitious targets such as the 15 million people on treatment by 2015."

FILE – WHO – NOVEMBER 2011, KHARTOUM, SUDAN

3. Various shots, voluntary counselling and testing activities

UNICEF – 21 NOVEMBER 2012, NEW YORK CITY

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Craig McClure, UNICEF Chief of HIV and AIDS
"Such dramatic progress has occurred in past decade for example we've gone from virtually no one who needed treatment receiving it ten years ago to over half of all adults around the world who need treatment receiving it. But when we talk about an AIDS free generation we really need to address the fact that a new generation free of HIV free of AIDS must begin with children. Children, mothers, fathers."

FILE – UNAIDS – 27 OCTOBER 2012, YANGON, MYANMAR

5. Close up pills being poured onto a tray  
6. Close up pills being poured from tray into a plastic bag

UNICEF – 21 NOVEMBER 2012, NEW YORK CITY

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director
"This is life. Life and death. And we need to keep driving through to the finish line not just to prevent more children from being born HIV positive where we are making progress but also to do something about the some two million children around the world who are HIV positive and who need to get on medications and only less than a third of them are getting that compared to over half of adults. That's morally wrong and it's practically wrong and we need to use that to keep pushing us to the finish."

FILE – UNAIDS – 27 OCTOBER 2012, YANGON, MYANMAR

5. Close up, female condom in hand of peer counsellor  
6. Close up, peer counsellor giving a condom workshop to sex-workers  
7. Wide shot, peer counsellor and sex workers in workshop  
8. Close up, workshop participant listening to workshop  
9. Med shot, peer counsellor giving workshop

WHO – 29 NOVEMBER 2012, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of the World Health Organization's HIV Department:
"The important thing is to sustain the momentum now and to ensure that nobody is left behind. Wherever somebody lives and whoever somebody is, we need to make sure that these persons get treatment and prevention services."

FILE – UNAIDS – 27 OCTOBER 2012, YANGON, MYANMAR

11. Wide of lobby area of Tharkaytha Hospital's HIV services with two nurses, patient walks in 
12. Close up of nurse  
13. Wide of patient in HIV prevention counselling session  
14. Medium of patient and counsellor in counselling session

FILE – UNAIDS – 1 NOVEMBER 2012, JAKARTA, INDONESIA

15. Wide shot, methadone bottle with people waiting outside methadone clinic for drug users
16. Close up, methadone bottle  
17. Close up, counsellor filling a cup with methadone  
18. Close up, methadone pouring into cup  
19. Close up, water being poured into cup  
20. Close up, methadone clinic sign  
21. Wide shot, back shot of person drinking methadone outside clinic

STORYLINE:

On this World AIDS Day (1 December), the UN celebrates "dramatic progress" over the past decade.

In 2011, 2.5 million people were newly infected with HIV.  An estimated 1.7 million people died. That is 700,000 fewer new infections worldwide than ten years ago, and 600,000 fewer deaths than in 2005.

Given the spread of the epidemic today, reaching the goal of zero new HIV infections and zero deaths from AIDS-related illness may sound difficult, but the World Health Organization (WHO) says significant progress is underway.

Much of it is attributed to the life-saving medications, called anti-retrovirals, to treat those infected with HIV. Currently eight million people in low- and middle-income countries are accessing the treatment they need, up from only 0.4 million in 2003.

SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of the World Health Organization's HIV Department: 
"We are seeing impressive global progress in the response to the AIDS epidemic. Fewer people are dying, fewer people are getting infected and many more people now have access to life saving treatment. Eight million people in 2012, we are now getting confident that we can achieve very ambitious targets such as the 15 million people on treatment by 2015."

The UN Children's Fund, UNICEF says that an AIDS-free generation, once seemingly impossible, is now within reach.

SOUNDBITE (English) Craig McClure UNICEF Chief of HIVand AIDS
"Such dramatic progress has occurred in past decade. For example we've gone from virtually no one who needed treatment receiving it ten years ago to over half of all adults around the world who need treatment receiving it. But when we talk about an AIDS free generation we really need to address the fact that a new generation free of HIV free of AIDS must begin with children. Children, mothers, fathers."

In all regions of the world, some groups of people are still not able to access HIV prevention and treatment. Children, for example, are lagging badly behind: only 28% of children who need antiretrovirals can obtain them.

Only 57 per cent of the estimated 1.5 million pregnant women living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries received effective antiretroviral medicines to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director
"This is life. Life and death. And we need to keep driving through to the finish line not just to prevent more children from being born HIV positive where we are making progress but also to do something about the some two million children around the world who are HIV positive and who need to get on medications and only less than a third of them are getting that compared to over half of adults. That's morally wrong and it's practically wrong and we need to use that to keep pushing us to the finish."

WHO has proclaimed 'Zero discrimination' as the theme for this year's World AIDS Day.

It says stigma, discrimination and legal issues are often significant barriers to accessing effective care. Adolescent girls, sex workers, men who have sex with men and people who use drugs often remain vulnerable and marginalized. Migrants frequently have only limited access to health services.  As a result, they often struggle to obtain the health services they need, including the provision of antiretroviral therapy.

SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of the World Health Organization's HIV Department:
"The important thing is to sustain the momentum now and to ensure that nobody is left behind. Wherever somebody lives and whoever somebody is, we need to make sure that these persons get treatment and prevention services."

One of WHO's priorities is to help countries move closer to universal health coverage. The Organization works with partners to combat stigma and discrimination. It supports countries in improving service delivery in all geographic areas, for example by increasing access to medicines and diagnostics, and through mechanisms to encourage health workers to work in remote areas. It supports the establishment and maintenance of financing mechanisms that ensure that no one is thrust into poverty because they have to pay for services out of their own pockets.