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((PLAYBOOK SLUG: COVID-MALAWI VACCINE CHIEFS
HEADLINE: Malawi Chiefs Take Lead in Increasing COVID Vaccine Uptake
PUBLISHED: 1/25/22 at 9am
BYLINE: Lameck Masina
CONTRIBUTOR:
DATELINE: Blantyre District
VIDEOGRAPHER: Lameck Masina
VIDEO EDITOR:
SCRIPT EDITORS: DLJ, MAS
VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA
PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO X
VID APPROVED BY: JONATHAN SPIER
TYPE: TVPKGN
EDITOR NOTES: Photos for the web available))
((INTRO)) In Malawi, nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, only seven percent of the population has been vaccinated against the coronavirus, one of the lowest rates in Africa. Village chiefs are trying to change that by urging people to take the jab from mobile vaccination clinics. Lameck Masina reports from Blantyre, Malawi.
((NARRATOR))
Public meetings and door-to-door campaigns are among the strategies village chiefs in Malawi like John Sanganiza are using to mobilize villagers to get vaccinated.
Here, the chiefs defuse myths that link COVID-19 vaccine to infertility and allegations that the vaccine is the government's ploy to depopulate the country.
((John Sanganiza, Village Chief ((n Chichewa, 27 secs))
“I give them an example that there is a life prolonging drug, ARVs. If the government wanted to reduce the population by killing people, it could have used ARVs. But now, many people are taking ARV, but they are not dying.”
During the campaigns, chiefs accompany mobile vaccination clinics where villagers are voluntarily vaccinated against COVID-19.
The effort started in July as part of a yearlong program, funded by the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations.
A consortium of six NGOs including Goal Malawi is working to scale up vaccine uptake in rural Malawi.
Transcript/ScriptUSAGM SHARE
((PLAYBOOK SLUG: COVID-MALAWI VACCINE CHIEFS
HEADLINE: Malawi Chiefs Take Lead in Increasing COVID Vaccine Uptake
PUBLISHED: 1/25/22 at 9am
BYLINE: Lameck Masina
CONTRIBUTOR:
DATELINE: Blantyre District
VIDEOGRAPHER: Lameck Masina
VIDEO EDITOR:
SCRIPT EDITORS: DLJ, MAS
VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA
PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO X
VID APPROVED BY: JONATHAN SPIER
TYPE: TVPKGN
EDITOR NOTES: Photos for the web available))
((INTRO)) In Malawi, nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, only seven percent of the population has been vaccinated against the coronavirus, one of the lowest rates in Africa. Village chiefs are trying to change that by urging people to take the jab from mobile vaccination clinics. Lameck Masina reports from Blantyre, Malawi.
((NARRATOR))
Public meetings and door-to-door campaigns are among the strategies village chiefs in Malawi like John Sanganiza are using to mobilize villagers to get vaccinated.
Here, the chiefs defuse myths that link COVID-19 vaccine to infertility and allegations that the vaccine is the government's ploy to depopulate the country.
((John Sanganiza, Village Chief ((n Chichewa, 27 secs))
“I give them an example that there is a life prolonging drug, ARVs. If the government wanted to reduce the population by killing people, it could have used ARVs. But now, many people are taking ARV, but they are not dying.”
During the campaigns, chiefs accompany mobile vaccination clinics where villagers are voluntarily vaccinated against COVID-19.
The effort started in July as part of a yearlong program, funded by the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations.
A consortium of six NGOs including Goal Malawi is working to scale up vaccine uptake in rural Malawi.
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((PLAYBOOK SLUG: COVID-MALAWI VACCINE CHIEFS
HEADLINE: Malawi Chiefs Take Lead in Increasing COVID Vaccine Uptake
PUBLISHED: 1/25/22 at 9am
BYLINE: Lameck Masina
CONTRIBUTOR:
DATELINE: Blantyre District
VIDEOGRAPHER: Lameck Masina
VIDEO EDITOR:
SCRIPT EDITORS: DLJ, MAS
VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA
PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO X
VID APPROVED BY: JONATHAN SPIER
TYPE: TVPKGN
EDITOR NOTES: Photos for the web available))
((INTRO)) In Malawi, nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, only seven percent of the population has been vaccinated against the coronavirus, one of the lowest rates in Africa. Village chiefs are trying to change that by urging people to take the jab from mobile vaccination clinics. Lameck Masina reports from Blantyre, Malawi.
((NARRATOR))
Public meetings and door-to-door campaigns are among the strategies village chiefs in Malawi like John Sanganiza are using to mobilize villagers to get vaccinated.
Here, the chiefs defuse myths that link COVID-19 vaccine to infertility and allegations that the vaccine is the government's ploy to depopulate the country.
((John Sanganiza, Village Chief ((n Chichewa, 27 secs))
“I give them an example that there is a life prolonging drug, ARVs. If the government wanted to reduce the population by killing people, it could have used ARVs. But now, many people are taking ARV, but they are not dying.”
During the campaigns, chiefs accompany mobile vaccination clinics where villagers are voluntarily vaccinated against COVID-19.
The effort started in July as part of a yearlong program, funded by the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations.
A consortium of six NGOs including Goal Malawi is working to scale up vaccine uptake in rural Malawi.
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Embargo DateJanuary 25, 2022 16:30 EST
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