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Child's Day and SNIDS Communication Campaign Evaluation
Health Risk Environment
Description
Vitamin A deficiently was recognized as one of the major public health problems contributing significantly to under 5 years mortality, increases susceptibility to infection, lowers immunity leading to frequent ill health and poor growth among children under five years of age.� n 1999 the Ministry of health undertook an initiative to tackle this problem by introducing Vitamin A supplementation with the polio campaign and in the subsequent years it was combined with the measles immunization campaign until 2003. Although significant Vitamin A coverage was achieved through this strategy it was realized that the immunization campaigns were short-term strategies, costly and unsustainable and therefore not a total solution for the Vitamin A problem.