UN / TUBERCULOSIS CONFLICT AREAS
04-May-2023
00:03:56
The Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership said that current conflicts have a huge impact on the efforts to end tuberculosis. UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / TUBERCULOSIS CONFLICT AREAS
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 4 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
TRT: 03:56
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 4 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
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RECENT - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
4 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership:
“The conflicts that we see, first, obviously, the war in Ukraine, but even though the fight now in Sudan is having a huge impact on our efforts to try to end TB [tuberculosis]. During the war in Ukraine, I mean, it's remarkable the fact that the Ukrainian people are actually showing an amazing resilience in doing their best to maintain the services for TB. But obviously, a lot of people left the country and there is a lot of effort ongoing to ensure that especially for TB, in which is very important to diagnose the disease early because it's airborne. Right? So it spreads through air so you know that everyone is at risk. So you need to find the people early and get them diagnosed and then we need to make sure that the treatment is followed up.”
4. Med shot, journalist
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership:
“We are a United Nations hosted entity, we aim to end tuberculosis. That I don't know how many of you are aware that despite of the fact that it is with us for hundreds of years, is the biggest infectious disease killer, killing more than HIV and malaria together and currently more than COVID.”
6. Med shot, journalist
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership:
“We expect that this year. We hope actually, to have a very strong political declaration and the very strong presence of the leaders around tuberculosis and commitments hopefully, to go and see that we can end it by 2030.”
8. Close up, journalist speaking
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership:
“TB is at the front line in using digital health and artificial intelligence in the TB response. Even just to give you an example, we don't have yet anything in Sudan, but in Ukraine, we were able to push mobile X rays. In my lifetime TB X ray was done in a room in, you know, in a room and everyone close the door. It's a big door, everyone is out to the corridor because of radiation. Now there are mobile X rays that you can take a selfie with it is very small. It's portable, so it was used a lot in Ukraine to do mobile screening.”
10. Wide shot, press briefing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership:
“When COVID hit the road, with a TB doctors and TB hospitals were the first ones to deal with the COVID in the big parts of the world. Because they weren't the ones dealing with the lungs. So that's why TB is a very present conversation on the pandemic preparedness response as well.”
12. Wide shot, press briefing room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership:
“The number of Ukrainian people with TB is very high. Actually, is the highest number in entire Europe. In the region 34,000 people with tuberculosis. At the same time… it is an estimated figure. At the same time they had a large number of people with drug-resistant TB as well in Ukraine. Now the very good thing is because the together with WHO and the Global Fund, that was from the beginning, a system in place to make sure that people are tracked the really clear. We know that there were less than 200 people that with XDR TB [drug-resistant TB] that were moved out of Ukraine to Moldova and Romania. And but we don't have the figures for the normal TB, not XDR TB.”
14. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership:
“The world is still having... it has an airborne pandemic that it ignores. And it knows how to treat, it has the treatment, and it's very cost efficient, but it ignores.”
16. Wide shot, press briefing room
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
4 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership:
“The conflicts that we see, first, obviously, the war in Ukraine, but even though the fight now in Sudan is having a huge impact on our efforts to try to end TB [tuberculosis]. During the war in Ukraine, I mean, it's remarkable the fact that the Ukrainian people are actually showing an amazing resilience in doing their best to maintain the services for TB. But obviously, a lot of people left the country and there is a lot of effort ongoing to ensure that especially for TB, in which is very important to diagnose the disease early because it's airborne. Right? So it spreads through air so you know that everyone is at risk. So you need to find the people early and get them diagnosed and then we need to make sure that the treatment is followed up.”
4. Med shot, journalist
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership:
“We are a United Nations hosted entity, we aim to end tuberculosis. That I don't know how many of you are aware that despite of the fact that it is with us for hundreds of years, is the biggest infectious disease killer, killing more than HIV and malaria together and currently more than COVID.”
6. Med shot, journalist
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership:
“We expect that this year. We hope actually, to have a very strong political declaration and the very strong presence of the leaders around tuberculosis and commitments hopefully, to go and see that we can end it by 2030.”
8. Close up, journalist speaking
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership:
“TB is at the front line in using digital health and artificial intelligence in the TB response. Even just to give you an example, we don't have yet anything in Sudan, but in Ukraine, we were able to push mobile X rays. In my lifetime TB X ray was done in a room in, you know, in a room and everyone close the door. It's a big door, everyone is out to the corridor because of radiation. Now there are mobile X rays that you can take a selfie with it is very small. It's portable, so it was used a lot in Ukraine to do mobile screening.”
10. Wide shot, press briefing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership:
“When COVID hit the road, with a TB doctors and TB hospitals were the first ones to deal with the COVID in the big parts of the world. Because they weren't the ones dealing with the lungs. So that's why TB is a very present conversation on the pandemic preparedness response as well.”
12. Wide shot, press briefing room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership:
“The number of Ukrainian people with TB is very high. Actually, is the highest number in entire Europe. In the region 34,000 people with tuberculosis. At the same time… it is an estimated figure. At the same time they had a large number of people with drug-resistant TB as well in Ukraine. Now the very good thing is because the together with WHO and the Global Fund, that was from the beginning, a system in place to make sure that people are tracked the really clear. We know that there were less than 200 people that with XDR TB [drug-resistant TB] that were moved out of Ukraine to Moldova and Romania. And but we don't have the figures for the normal TB, not XDR TB.”
14. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership:
“The world is still having... it has an airborne pandemic that it ignores. And it knows how to treat, it has the treatment, and it's very cost efficient, but it ignores.”
16. Wide shot, press briefing room
STORYLINE
The Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership said that current conflicts have a huge impact on the efforts to end tuberculosis.
Briefing reporters today (4 May) in New York on the global impact of tuberculosis (TB) in conflict areas, Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership, said, “During the war in Ukraine, I mean, it's remarkable the fact that the Ukrainian people are actually showing an amazing resilience in doing their best to maintain the services for TB. But obviously, a lot of people left the country and there is a lot of effort ongoing to ensure that especially for TB, in which is very important to diagnose the disease early because it's airborne.”
She continued, “So it spread straightaway, so you know that everyone is at risk.” Ditiu explained, “you need to find the people early and get them diagnosed and then we need to make sure that the treatment is followed up.”
Ditiu noted, “We are a United Nations hosted entity, we aim to end tuberculosis. That I don't know how many of you are aware that despite of the fact that it is with us for hundreds of years, is the biggest infectious disease killer, killing more than HIV and malaria together and currently more than COVID.”
The Executive Director also said that this September “we hope actually, to have a very strong political declaration and the very strong presence of the leaders around tuberculosis and commitments hopefully, to go and see that we can end it by 2030.”
According to her, the number of Ukrainian people with TB is very high. She added, “Actually, is the highest number in entire Europe. In the region 34,000 people with tuberculosis.”
She continued, “they had a large number of people with drug-resistant TB.” Ditiu also said, “We know that there were less than 200 people that with XDR TB [drug-resistant TB] that were moved out of Ukraine to Moldova and Romania.”
The Executive Director noted, “but we don't have the figures for the normal TB, not XDR TB.”
Ditiu highlighted that the world has an airborne pandemic that "it ignores. And it knows how to treat, it has the treatment, and it's very cost efficient, but it ignores.”
Briefing reporters today (4 May) in New York on the global impact of tuberculosis (TB) in conflict areas, Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership, said, “During the war in Ukraine, I mean, it's remarkable the fact that the Ukrainian people are actually showing an amazing resilience in doing their best to maintain the services for TB. But obviously, a lot of people left the country and there is a lot of effort ongoing to ensure that especially for TB, in which is very important to diagnose the disease early because it's airborne.”
She continued, “So it spread straightaway, so you know that everyone is at risk.” Ditiu explained, “you need to find the people early and get them diagnosed and then we need to make sure that the treatment is followed up.”
Ditiu noted, “We are a United Nations hosted entity, we aim to end tuberculosis. That I don't know how many of you are aware that despite of the fact that it is with us for hundreds of years, is the biggest infectious disease killer, killing more than HIV and malaria together and currently more than COVID.”
The Executive Director also said that this September “we hope actually, to have a very strong political declaration and the very strong presence of the leaders around tuberculosis and commitments hopefully, to go and see that we can end it by 2030.”
According to her, the number of Ukrainian people with TB is very high. She added, “Actually, is the highest number in entire Europe. In the region 34,000 people with tuberculosis.”
She continued, “they had a large number of people with drug-resistant TB.” Ditiu also said, “We know that there were less than 200 people that with XDR TB [drug-resistant TB] that were moved out of Ukraine to Moldova and Romania.”
The Executive Director noted, “but we don't have the figures for the normal TB, not XDR TB.”
Ditiu highlighted that the world has an airborne pandemic that "it ignores. And it knows how to treat, it has the treatment, and it's very cost efficient, but it ignores.”
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