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Liberian To Register Children Whose Births Not Recorded During The Ebola Crisis

31.07.2015 10:06

UNICEF is supporting a drive by the Liberian Government to register more than 70,000 children whose births were not recorded during the Ebola crisis, leaving them vulnerable to marginalization and exclusion. Birth registrations in 2014 and 2015 dropped sharply from pre-Ebola levels, according to Ministry of Health data.

UNICEF is supporting a drive by the Liberian Government to register more than 70,000 children whose births were not recorded during the Ebola crisis, leaving them vulnerable to marginalization and exclusion.

Birth registrations in 2014 and 2015 dropped sharply from pre-Ebola levels, according to Ministry of Health data. In 2013, before the onset of the virus, the births of 79,000 children were registered. In 2014, when many health facilities had closed or had reduced services due to the Ebola response, the number of registrations fell to 48,000 – a 39 per cent decrease over the previous year.

Just 700 children are reported to have had their births registered between January and May 2015.

UNICEF is supporting the revamp of the registration systems, and will assist with training, logistics, and outreach efforts prior to a planned nationwide campaign later this year, with the aim of reaching all children not registered in 2014 and 2015.

Veronica Dixon, a Totota resident said, "It's important because when you have the child you need to have all the things for them. Maybe you go somewhere and someone asks you, 'when was the child was born?' If you don't know, they'll give you a hard time. Some people say you can't come to the hospital for treatment if they don't know when the child was born. Some don't know the time. They can only stand there, scratching their heads."

In neighbouring Sierra Leone, where the Ebola emergency similarly weakened the country's already fragile health systems, approximately 250,000 children were registered during a recent five-day birth registration and polio vaccination campaign.

Prior to the Ebola outbreak, UNICEF helped increase birth registration rates in Liberia from 4 per cent –then the world's second lowest rate – to 25 per cent in 2013.


STORY: LIBERIA / POST EBOLA BIRTH REGISTRATION
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: LOCAL LANGUAGE / NATS
DATELINE: 27 JULY 2015, BONG COUNTY, TOTOTA COMMUNITY, LIBERIA


1. Wide shot, exterior, Totota Health Center
2. Med shot, exterior, Totota Health Center
3. Med shot, woman entering health center,
4. Med shot, workers working to create the birth certificates
5. Close shot, woman and mobile registration worker
6. Close shot, Child Health Card
7. Med shot, woman having her child registered
8. Close up, woman's child held close to her back with wrapped blanket
9. Close up, Birth Registration application form
10. Med shot, woman having her child registered
11. Wide shot, women sitting outside the clinic, Veronica Dixon walks towards camera
12. Med shot, Veronica Dixon having her children registered.
13. Close up, Veronica's daughter, Success Sumo
14. Med shot, Veronica helping mobile registration worker with her information
15. Close up, Veronica helping mobile registration worker with her information
16. Med shot, Mobile registration worker giving Veronica her pink form
17. Med shot, mobile registration worker entering information. Shot from above
18. Med shot, mobile registration worker entering information into computer
19. Med shot, mobile registration worker looking through completed birth certificates
20. SOUNDBITE (Local language) Veronica Dixon, Totota resident:
"It's important because when you have the child you need to have all the things for them. Maybe you go somewhere and someone asks you, 'when was the child was born?' If you don't know, they'll give you a hard time. Some people say you can't come to the hospital for treatment if they don't know when the child was born. Some don't know the time. They can only stand there, scratching their heads."
20. Med shot, Esther G. Thomas, Birth Registration Coordinator talking to a community member
21. Wide shot, woman walking away from the clinic with her completed birth certificate
22. Wide shot, woman walking away from the clinic with her completed birth
DURATION: 02:28     

                    



 
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