UN / COLOMBIA DUQUE MEASLES
24-Sep-2019
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The President of Colombia, Iván Duque, received an award from the Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) in recognition of Colombia’s work to combat measles and rubella. UNIFEED
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DATELINE: 24 SEPTEMBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 SEPTEMBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Wide shot, reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tedros Adhanom, Director General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“I am so proud today to hand you this initiative recognition, the Measles and Rubella Leadership Award.”
5. Close up, award
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Iván Duque Márquez, President, Colombia:
“Colombia is a country that has always taken immunization programmes very seriously. Colombia started to massively immunize for measles and rubella in 1993. In a massive scale. We had had experience with vaccinations, but a massive exercise started that year, and as the years went by Colombia achieved recognition as a measles-free country.”
7. Wide shot, dais
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Iván Duque Márquez, President, Colombia:
“We have received close to 1.4 million Venezuelan brothers and sisters in our country. And of course, there are minors that have arrived in our country that had measles and rubella. They arrived in our country in that condition because the immunization and vaccination programme in Venezuela has been completely debilitated, due to institutional destruction.”
9. Wide shot, dais
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Iván Duque Márquez, President, Colombia:
“As President of Colombia, I accept this award, this recognition, with humbleness, with a great commitment, and also as proof that we have acted in an effective way in the way we have handled one of the most dramatic migratory crises that Latin America has experienced in recent times.”
11. Wide shot, end of presser
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Wide shot, reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tedros Adhanom, Director General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“I am so proud today to hand you this initiative recognition, the Measles and Rubella Leadership Award.”
5. Close up, award
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Iván Duque Márquez, President, Colombia:
“Colombia is a country that has always taken immunization programmes very seriously. Colombia started to massively immunize for measles and rubella in 1993. In a massive scale. We had had experience with vaccinations, but a massive exercise started that year, and as the years went by Colombia achieved recognition as a measles-free country.”
7. Wide shot, dais
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Iván Duque Márquez, President, Colombia:
“We have received close to 1.4 million Venezuelan brothers and sisters in our country. And of course, there are minors that have arrived in our country that had measles and rubella. They arrived in our country in that condition because the immunization and vaccination programme in Venezuela has been completely debilitated, due to institutional destruction.”
9. Wide shot, dais
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Iván Duque Márquez, President, Colombia:
“As President of Colombia, I accept this award, this recognition, with humbleness, with a great commitment, and also as proof that we have acted in an effective way in the way we have handled one of the most dramatic migratory crises that Latin America has experienced in recent times.”
11. Wide shot, end of presser
STORYLINE
The President of Colombia, Iván Duque, today (24 Sep) received an award from the Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) in recognition of Colombia’s work to combat measles and rubella.
WHO’s Director General Tedros Adhanom handed Duque the Measles and Rubella Leadership Award on behalf of WHO, UNICEF, the UN Foundation, The US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and the Red Cross.
Duque said that following a “massive” immunization campaign that began in 1993, Colombia had long been declared measles-free.
He said that recently, as part of the “close to 1.4 million Venezuelan brothers and sisters” that have arrived in Venezuela, “there are minors that have arrived in our country that had measles and rubella.”
The Colombian President said the award is “proof that we have acted in an effective way in the way we have handled one of the most dramatic migratory crises that Latin America has experienced in recent times.”
WHO’s Director General Tedros Adhanom handed Duque the Measles and Rubella Leadership Award on behalf of WHO, UNICEF, the UN Foundation, The US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and the Red Cross.
Duque said that following a “massive” immunization campaign that began in 1993, Colombia had long been declared measles-free.
He said that recently, as part of the “close to 1.4 million Venezuelan brothers and sisters” that have arrived in Venezuela, “there are minors that have arrived in our country that had measles and rubella.”
The Colombian President said the award is “proof that we have acted in an effective way in the way we have handled one of the most dramatic migratory crises that Latin America has experienced in recent times.”
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