Pan-African Forum promotes the role of local community in child health. Religious and traditional leaders and senior media representatives from across the continent are gathering in Dakar this week to explore how their unique influence in hard-to-reach communities can boost immunization rates and support child survival efforts in Africa, where two-thirds of child deaths are entirely preventable. Immunization and child survival rates across Africa have faltered in the past decade, according to UNICEF country data released last week in the Progress for Children report: http://www.unicef.org/media/media_24252.htm report.