It is clear from above that the coverage levels of key interventions remain sub-optimal12 and require increased efforts to secure improved survival chances for children in their early stages of life. This will also contribute to improving maternal health and reduce maternal mortality. The level of contraceptive use has been low and terminal methods of sterilisation, which are not very effective in spacing between the deliveries, had the major share among the different methods used. Only four diseases – respiratory infections, diarrhoeal diseases, other infectious and parasitic diseases and malaria – account for about half of under-five deaths in Respiratory infections and diarrhoeal diseases together contribute to 36 per cent of all deaths in children under.
