Fighting; no battling for child survival in Sierra Leone; what ammunition?

ABSTRACT

The sustainability of the child survival and development interventions has always been an imoprtant concern and an awareness of its crucial importance has led to greater efforts to integrate them into PHC programmes. But the cynic will ask what after UCI in 1990? What after achieving our national coverage of 80 per cent immunization rate? What of the other child saving measures? Without doubt reaching a state of herd community will more than half the alarming infant morbidity and mortality rates and can be a significant benchmark on the road to Health For All by Year 2000. The government of Sierra Leone/UNICEF social mobilization drive; without doubt; has created the awareness in every nook and cranny in Sierra Leone that the GOBBI/FFF septet is very crucial to children's survival and development