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00.05 | GVs of village, women | MUSIC (‘Landscapes’)
VO: In Sierra Leone, a woman has 1 in 8 chance of dying during pregnancy and childbirth. |
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| The more children she has, the greater the risk.
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| Here, girls often marry in their early teens and the average woman has over 5 pregnancies. |
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00.22 | Zainabu IV
Title: Zainabu Kargbo
| Zainabu: I have given birth to ten children. I have nine children left. One died, so I’m left with nine. |
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00.29 | Zainabu walks to stream | VO: Zainabu is all too aware of the hazards of childbirth. |
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00.35 | WS women on stream
Women doing washing
| Woman in blue top: Did you hear about the lady from Mafullah?
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| They said the baby was Ok, but she died.
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| Zainabu: Oh God! It makes me think… I can’t go through all that again. |
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00.50 | GVs of village | VO: Contraception allows women to choose when and how often they get pregnant. But in Sierra Leone only 6% of couples use modern methods. Myths and old superstitions play a part. |
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01.04 | Men | Man in hat: It’s good that we have Family Planning. But now my wife is fat and looking good. What if she uses this and then gets thin? People will laugh at us and say I cannot feed my wife. |
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01.22 | Sullay IV | Sullay: When women go to family planning, they are no longer afraid to flirt. That’s why some men don’t like it. They think, now that they can’t get pregnant, their wives will do what they like. |
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01.35 | GVs of Zainabu, village | VO: Lack of access is another barrier to contraceptive use. Like Zainabu, 2/3 of the population live in rural areas with basic health services. |
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01.47 | Van arrives | VO: But this community is fortunate. An outreach team comes every month to provide family planning. |
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01.55 | Zainabu walks up to clinc. | VO: Although Zainabu has never used contraception before, she’s now ready to hear what’s available. |
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02.02 | Demonstration at clinic
| Anna: Here’s the coil. It’s not metal. It’s plastic. Come and touch it. You see? Can you see it? This stays in place for up to 10 years. |
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| Zainabu on operating theatre. | VO: After hearing the options, Zainabu chooses a tubal ligation - permanent sterilization. |
| 02.23 | GVs of women in village. | Zainabu is one of the lucky ones. Hundreds of thousands of women still do not have access to modern contraception and will continue to die unnecessarily. |
| 02.37 | Zainabu comes out of room. | Zainabu I’m very happy it’s done. Very happy! |
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02.42 | GVs of rural areas.
| VO: In order to meet Millenium Development Goal 5 by 2015, more must be done to help women like Zainabu make life-saving decisions. |
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| End Card – ‘Marie Stopes’ | Music |
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