@article{442e1ec81e574bd88fb1100ebcd98ae5,
title = "Immunization, oral rehydration therapy and malaria chemotherapy among children under 5 in bomi and grand cape mount counties, liberia, 1984 and 1988",
abstract = "As part of an evaluation of child survival programmes in 13 African countries, cluster surveys were carried out in two Liberian counties in 1984 and 1988 to measure use of three primary health care services: immunization of infants, antimalarial 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 malaria with drugs available in the home increased from 5 to 35%, and home use of sugar-salt solution to prevent dehydration remained essentially unchanged, 5.9% in 1984 and 3.8% in 1988.",
author = "Foster, {Stanley O.} and Spiegel, {Richard A.} and Ali Mokdad and Saye Yeanon and Galakpai, {Moses K.} and Thornton, {James N.} and Thornton, {James N.} and Becker, {Stanley R.}",
note = "Funding Information: This evaluation of the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Child Survival Program was funded by the USAID through PASA BAS-0241PHC-2233 with the Centers for Disease Control. Funding Information: Before the CCCD project was started, health facilities had few appropriate drugs. With support from the Liberian National Drug Service, the Christian Health Association of Liberia, USAID, self-help funds from the US Ambassador and PLAN International, revolving drug funds were established at health facilities in the survey area. Under the supervision of local village health committees, communities surrounding health facilities were given responsibility for raising seed capital and for monitoring the handling of funds. Drug supply and resupply, initiated in 1986, functioned effectively until 1990 when the health system collapsed with the onset of civil war.",
year = "1993",
doi = "10.1093/ije/22.Supplement_1.S50",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "22",
pages = "S50--S55",
journal = "International Journal of Epidemiology",
issn = "0300-5771",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
}