of the Expanded Programme on Immunization and the introduction of the Pentavalent and Pneumococcal Vaccine. However, the Committee is concerned by the tenaciously high rate of child and maternal mortality in Zimbabwe that is caused by limited availability of free drugs for children under the age of five in public hospitals; increasing rate of orphan children due to chronic illness of parents; poor access to neonatal care; prevalence of preventable diseases such as pneumonia, measles and malnutrition; and the impact of HIV/AIDS pandemic. 36. Therefore, the Committee recommends the Government of Zimbabwe to create and strengthen public-private health sector partnership to improve the quality of health services; implement monitoring mechanisms on user fees in all public health institutions so as to remove financial barriers to mothers and children; ensure adequate provision of essential medical supplies and other basic equipment from primary level to tertiary level; expand primary health care facilities in underserved areas such as resettlement farms; and provide and sustain outreach services from first level facilities to communities. 37. In addition, the Committee recommends the State Party to build the capacity of health workers, programme managers, health management teams and village health workers to conduct community case management of pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria. Moreover, the Committee recommends the State Party to focus on ensuring household food security in Its effort to address malnutrition. 38. In its effort to reduce child and maternal mortality, the Committee recommends the State Party to take into account the Maputo Plan of Action and the African Regional Nutrition Strategy (2015-2025). G. Education, leisure and cultural activities 39. The Committee applauds the State Party for measures it has taken for the realization of the right to education through the provision of constitutional safeguard for free and compulsory primary education, adoption of the Basic Educational Assistance Module for orphan and vulnerable children, devising quality enhancing programs such as the Better Environmental Science Teachings (BEST), and inclusion of special education programs in the curricula of teachers training. However, the Committee is concerned by the increasing rate of school dropout and low rate of secondary education enrolment as a result of school fee, relocation, marriage, pregnancy, and death; imposition of levies; and restriction on children who do not have birth certificate not to attend schools.