(8 Apr 2015)
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Zhdanivka, Ukraine - 26 March 2015
1. Medic placing samples in machine
2. Various of nurse giving prisoner medicine
3. Prisoner at window
4. Various of prisoner receiving sample bottle and coughing into it
5. Exterior of jail building
6. Man at entrance to laboratory with sign reading (Ukrainian) "Diagnostic lab" painted on the colors of the Ukrainian flag
7. Various of patients sitting in ward (image blurred in edit due to nudity)
8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Irina Vasylyevna, MSF social worker: (see transcript below)
9. Medecins sans Frontiers (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders doctors and prison staff passing through security door and along corridor
10. Corridor outside ward
11. Close of booklets
12. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Nikolai Gopilo, Chief doctor of Zhdanovskaya colony: (see transcript below)
13. Various of prisoners in dining room
14. UPSOUND: SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Prisoner (Name not given): (see transcript below)
15. Wide of prisoners eating
16. Prisoners walking towards prison church
VOICE-OVER SCRIPT:
DOCTORS IN EAST UKRAINE - ARE FIGHTING THEIR OWN BATTLE AGAINST THE HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS DISEASE, TUBERCULOSIS...
THE DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS GROUP - IS WORKING BEHIND THE BATTLE LINES BETWEEN UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN SEPARATISTS, BUT THEY'RE ON THE FRONTLINES IN THIS FIGHT AGAINST T-B.
THE POPULATION THEY'RE TREATING -- PRISONERS WHO ARE AT HIGH RISK OF SPREADING THE DISEASE.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RECEIVED AN EXCLUSIVE INSIDE LOOK AT HOW DOCTORS ARE CARING FOR INMATES AT A JAIL NEAR DONETSK -- UNDER THE CLOSE SUPERVISION OF PRO-RUSSIAN SEPARATISTS.
PRISONS CAN BE A HIGHLY DANGEROUS BREEDING GROUND FOR THE SPREAD OF T-B.
IN THIS CONFLICT ZONE, RESOURCES ARE SCARCE.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Irina Vasylyevna, MSF social worker:
"The treatment takes a very long time, starting from 36 months and sometimes even more. That's why many people who are released are not fully recovered. And our aim is that, when they are released, they will finish their treatment and recover completely."
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS SAYS THEY'RE TREATING 170 PRISONERS IN THE CONFLICT ZONE WHO HAVE DEVELOPED DRUG RESISTANT T-B.
THEY ALSO SAY THE OFFICIAL DEATH RATE FROM THE DISEASE IS TEN TIMES HIGHER AMONG INMATES WHEN COMPARED TO THE REST OF UKRAINE'S POPULATION.
YET DOCTORS SAY SOME INMATES ACTUALLY WANT TO GET SICK.
SOUNDBITE (Russian) Nikolai Gopilo, Chief doctor of Zhdanovskaya colony:
"We can presume that people want to get here because this is a hospital. The conditions here are easier than in other institutions. And also they all know that there is a law - release of prisoners due to illness."
MOST OF THE JAIL'S INMATES WERE WILLING TO TALK TO THE AP.
ONE PRISONER ADMITTING THAT HIS PARENTS PROBABLY THINK THAT HE WAS DEAD BY NOW ... BUT HERE HE WAS, EATING FISH.
A WARDEN QUICKLY CUT SHORT THAT CONVERSATION.
PADMANANDA RAMA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

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