IMMUNIZATION, ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY AND MALARIA CHEMOTHERAPY AMONGCHILDREN UNDER 5 IN BOMI AND GRAND-CAPE-MOUNT COUNTIES, LIBERIA, 1984AND 1988

As part of an evaluation of child survival programmes in 13 African co untries, cluster surveys were carried out in two Liberian counties in 1984 and 1988 to measure use of three primary health care services: im munization of infants, anti- anti-malarial treatment of children with fever, and oral rehydration of childhood diarrhoea. Immunization rates increased (30-53% for DPT-1 and 13-33% for measles), treatment of mal aria with drugs available in the home increased from 5 to 35%, and hom e use of sugar-salt solution to prevent dehydration remained essential ly unchanged, 5.9% in 1984 and 3.8% in 1988.