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For children in Sierra Leone, poverty and malaria are a deadly combination

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Subido el 29 de mayo de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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UNICEF's Richard Lee reports on the deadly effects of malaria in Sierra Leone.

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You are watching UNICEF television. 00:00:00
Walk into any children's ward in Sierra Leone and you'll find a room full of anxious mothers 00:00:03
watching their sickly sons and daughters struggling to survive. 00:00:08
And more often than not, all the children will be battling the same deadly disease, malaria. 00:00:12
Marie Forna has already lost one child to malaria, 00:00:18
and now her youngest daughter Rachel has cerebral malaria, 00:00:21
the most virulent strain of the killer disease, and it's clinging on to life. 00:00:24
It is a terrible disease. She has only been ill for two days. 00:00:30
Look how helpless she is already. I am really scared. 00:00:34
Stagnant water and untreated sewage are the perfect breeding ground for a host of serious illnesses, 00:00:39
as well as for malaria-carrying mosquitoes. 00:00:44
While malaria is also rife in rural areas, 00:00:47
years of war and neglect have turned the poorest urban districts into death traps, 00:00:50
especially for children, who regularly use the rubbish-choked streams as toilet, shower and playground. 00:00:54
The result? One of the world's highest mortality rates for children under five, 00:01:04
mainly from preventable diseases, with malaria accounting for almost 40% of all these deaths. 00:01:08
But there are signs that the situation is changing, 00:01:18
and that greater emphasis is now being put on the prevention of malaria, 00:01:21
rather than simply concentrating on the cure. 00:01:24
Insecticide-treated bed nets have long been regarded as the first line of defence, 00:01:27
since they drastically reduce the risk of contracting malaria. 00:01:31
Sponsored by UNICEF, the distribution of nets will gradually expand to every district in the country, 00:01:35
supplying mosquito-proof shelter for tens of thousands of vulnerable women and children. 00:01:40
With some families already benefiting from the bed nets, malaria rates are slowly starting to fall. 00:01:45
Indeed, in some communities, the nets have proven so effective that their use is now enforced by law. 00:01:51
Obviously, bed nets are just part of the answer. 00:01:58
They can reduce malaria, but not eradicate it, 00:02:01
especially in a poverty-stricken country like Sierra Leone, 00:02:04
which cannot afford the vast sums needed to tackle the real, dirty water sources of the disease. 00:02:07
But more efficient diagnoses and more effective drugs, 00:02:12
as well as enhanced access to treatment, are also starting to make a difference. 00:02:15
Few children are actually dying of malaria complications, 00:02:20
because now people are having access to health care, 00:02:23
and when it is there, they actually report to their facilities within the first 24 hours after illness, 00:02:26
so the deaths due to malaria basically is decreasing according to our records. 00:02:32
But still obviously a massive challenge. 00:02:36
Indeed it is. 00:02:38
And so is survival for little Rachel, whose life is hanging by a thread. 00:02:39
All her mother can do is comfort her, and hope that she will not be the latest to die from this deadly, 00:02:43
but preventable disease. 00:02:48
This is Richard Lee in Sierra Leone, reporting for UNICEF Television. 00:02:50
Unite for Children. 00:02:54
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Fecha:
29 de mayo de 2007 - 14:46
Visibilidad:
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Enlace Relacionado:
UNICEF (United Nations International Chidren's Emergency Fund)
Duración:
02′ 59″
Relación de aspecto:
4:3 Hasta 2009 fue el estándar utilizado en la televisión PAL; muchas pantallas de ordenador y televisores usan este estándar, erróneamente llamado cuadrado, cuando en la realidad es rectangular o wide.
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