 Increase measures to eliminate communicable and non-communicable diseases and ensure they reach rural areas;  Undertake campaigns to increase the immunisation rate of children to prevent deaths from vaccine preventable diseases;  Increase the number of health professionals trained on management of HIV/AIDS and the availability of ART to pregnant women and children with HIV/AIDS ensuring children in underserved communities or where the disease is most prevalent have access to ART;  Devise measures and undertake campaigns to address the prevalence of tuberculosis and acute respiratory infection particularly amongst poor and malnourished communities;  Undertake campaigns to increase the rate of breast feeding;  Undertake to remove all fees attached to its free health services to children and ensure essential medicines are available in all health facilities. G. Education, leisure and cultural activities The right to education 17. The report indicates that education is basically and literally free at all levels, including graduate and postgraduate and that the Marco-Policy document of 1994 and the National Educational Policy (2003) all provide for pre-school, basic and secondary education, vocational and technical education, adult and continuing education, and special needs education. The Committee is however informed that accessibility of education especially for children from poor households, the hidden costs of school material, uniforms and transportation particularly for those living in rural areas along with the closure of the University of Asmara are some of the issues adversely affecting the full realisation of the right to education. The Committee also notes that parity has not been achieved between the enrolment of girls and boys. The Committee further notes that through the educational policy, high school students in their final year are enrolled to Warsay Yikealo which as part of Sawa Military Training Centre keeps children under strict military discipline. The Committee therefore recommends that the State Party undertakes;  To ensure that primary education is indeed free and compulsory with removal of any hidden costs and ensure that education standards are improved and regulations are implemented;  To ensure the strict application of the proclamation on the National Service (1994) that children are not at any time conscripted into the military services or trained with the view to conscripting them;  That tertiary education is made available, accessible, affordable and qualitative through the establishment of more educational institutions and the reopening of the University of Asmara; That measures are implemented to address issuespreventing children particularly girls from attending school and those from underserved communities; 7