(2 Dec 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Mid shot of parade with two giant puppets of US President-elect Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy
2. Rear view of parade
3. Cutaway of security
4. Various of parade
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Suwaidou ( from Gambia - no last name given):
"I would like to tell that we have these two giant leaders - that is Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, to look after African children. We are looking after them, let them consider us, they can help us. The economic crisis will not make them forget about African children, their promise that they make to African children. So we're telling them to come back to their promise, and let them do what they're asked to do."
6. Obama and Sarkozy puppets at front of parade
7. SOUNDBITE: (French) Rodrigue (from the Ivory Coast - no last name given):
"The message I want to pass is we have no means. The Western governments have decided to help us and we are really counting on their help even if they have a crisis. This is the message I want to pass - us children, we are not responsible for what is happening."
8. Pan from Sarkozy puppet to Obama puppet
9. Wide of parade
10. Drummer at front of parade
11. Various of women in parade
STORYLINE:
Giant puppets of US President-elect and French President Nicolas Sarkozy were paraded through the streets of Dakar on Tuesday to remind Western countries of financial commitments they've made to combat AIDS (Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) in Africa.
The parade was attended by people from across Africa and included representatives of Save the Children and other international charitable organisations.
It was held a day after ceremonies across the globe marked World AIDS Day.
Two people taking part in Tuesday's march expressed hope that Western countries would not use the global economic crisis as an excuse for not honouring commitments to tackle the spread of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), the virus that causes AIDS.
An estimated 33 million (m) people worldwide are infected with the HIV virus, the vast majority of them in Africa.
On Monday, Sarkozy's wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy signed on to become a goodwill ambassador for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The organisation, which was set up in 2002, said it is provided lifesaving treatment to two million people living with HIV worldwide.
Some 500-thousand children are born each year infected with HIV and 290-thousand of them died in 2007 as a result, the Global Fund said.
With access to antiretroviral drugs, the risk of virus transmission from an HIV-positive mother to her baby can be slashed to less than five percent, it added.
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