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Key results 2006
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- Improved community safety networks for orphaned and vulnerable children through the scaling up of childcare forums to all nine provinces of the country.
- Improved performance in schools implementing the Child-Friendly Schools initiative. Of participating schools, performance increased from 40 per cent to 60 per cent in one year.
- Increased national capacity for early diagnosis of HIV infection in infants, with the goal of 300,000 paediatric tests.
- Improved breastfeeding practices through the expansion of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative to 202 out of 545 health care facilities in all nine provinces.
- Improved reach and quality of early childhood development in communities by piloting 18 early childhood development centres as nodes of care and support for orphaned and vulnerable children in KwaZulu-Natal in preparation for national scaling up in 2007.
- A unique one-stop integrated response to violence and abuse against children and woman – the Thuthuzela Care Centres – operational in 12 sites, with six additional sites planned for 2007.
- Greater awareness of Parliamentarians on children’s issues through UNICEF’s work on strengthening relationships with Parliamentary Committees and distribution of advocacy material.
- Strengthened partnerships for children though high-level briefings, ministerial courtesy calls, and more than 21 keynote speeches to international and local decision-makers in Government, the private sector and the international community.
- Increased public awareness of the impact of HIV and AIDS on children during World AIDS Day and the month of December, thanks to a partnership with the South African Broadcasting Cooperation (SABC) and the South Africa print media.
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