On healthcare activities, in 2003, about a hundred older persons were screened and taken care of in the district of Yopougon (Abidjan). In 2004, two thousand people (2000) people were screened for metabolic diseases and 100 screened for hernia treatment. The support activities consist of donating foodstuffs and non-food items to the elderly. Furthermore, in line with the recommendations of the Madrid Conference on Older Persons, the Ministry of Employment, Social Affairs and Vocational Training on 20th February, 2015 launched the study on the living conditions of older persons. In Côte d’Ivoire, the aged population is estimated to be 913,668, according to the 2004 population and housing census. This figure is expected to reach 1,200,000 in 2018 and it accounts for 4.4% of the overall population. Recommendation XVIII. Continue to take appropriate measures to guarantee Free and Compulsory Universal Basic Education and adopt measures aimed at solving problems relating to registration fees with a view to guaranteeing students better access to tertiary institutions; The Ivoirian Constitution of 1 August 2000 guarantees equal access to education for all children in the country. This development policy became effective through various activities and measures which include: -Free enrolment into primary schools which came into effect from the 2008 academic year; -Distribution of text books and school kits to pupils. -Reduction of school fees at the secondary school level -Rehabilitation of several educational establishments -Construction of more schools with the aim of bringing the schools closer to the learners; - Recruitment of many new teachers; -Decision by government to make education compulsory from Primary Class 1 to Secondary Form 4. With regard to free education, from 2011 -2014, close to 47 billion CFA francs was used to procure more than 10,480,000 school kits and more than 8 million text books which were distributed in public primary schools. In 2014-2015, close to 4 million pupils attended primary schools in Cote d’Ivoire as against more than 144,000 in pre-school. In order to increase this figure, at the beginning of 2015/2016 academic year, a legal and regulatory framework was adopted to regulate the policy of compulsory education. Thus, Law No. 2015635 of 17 September, 2015 was passed to amend Law No. 95-696 of 7 September 1995 on education. This project, which is one of the government’s ambitious programmes, will cost 700 billion CFA francs (1.06 billion Euros), a greater proportion of this amount is dedicated to the recruitment of 644 teachers at the preschool level, 4243 primary school teachers, and 256 teachers at the secondary school level as well the provision of kits and text books for students. Furthermore, an Ordinance is scheduled to come into effect to reintegrate children who have dropped out of school. Most of the tertiary institutions are private. But students who are posted to those schools by the government will get bursaries to support the cost of their education. Cote d’Ivoire, under the Ministry of Higher Education has five (5) public universities (Abidjan-Cocody, AboboAdjame,Bouaké,Daloa,Korhogo), six (6) Public Higher Educational Institutions, twenty-six (26) private universities,forty-seven (47) private higher educational Institutions; and thirty-one (31) post-secondary training institutions affiliated to technical ministries that do not come under the Ministry of Higher Education. 18