Media materials
Images of the report launch in room III, UN Palais, Geneva, Switzerland.
Visuals show:
Schistosomiasis in Pemba Island (Broadcasters must courtsey: Merck & Co., Inc.).
- People near water
- Mother washing child
- Snail in water (vector of the disease)
- Praziquantel distribution to kids
- Information in school about the disease
Yaws (Broadcasters must courtesy: Médecins sans frontières)
- Men with a loudspeaker calling people to come to the drug distribution
- MSF nurse giving drugs to villagers
- Villagers waiting with numbers
- Drug distribution
Dengue in Pakistan (WHO footage)
- Hospital front desk with many patients
- Men on bed
- Doctor examine a patient
- Insecticide spaying in street from big trucks
- Insecticide spraying in house
- Man checking if larvae’s are present in water tank
- CU of larvae’s in water
Soil transmitted helminthiases (Broadcasters must courtesy: Bruno Levecke, Ghent University, Belgium)
- Kids receiving container for sample
- Desk with samples and water cups
- Health worker extracting worm from sample
- CU of worm
Buruli Ulcer (WHO 2010-2011)
- Skin test on a woman in Togo
- CU on a patient with affected hand, status after surgery and healing in Cameron
- Sample collection on affected patient on the leg in Benin
- Surgery ward with patient in Ghana
- Physiotherapy on the arm of a woman in Tsevié hospital in Togo
- Community education to villages in Benin
- Lab, testing sample in Togo