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Children's FundChildren's Fund

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HistoryHistory-UNICEF is created in December 1946 by the United Nations to provide food, clothing and health care to children.

-UNICEF begins a successful global campaign against yaws, a disfiguring disease affecting millions of children, and one that can be cured with penicillin.

-Following more than a decade of focus on child health issues, UNICEF expands its interests to address the needs of the whole child. Thus begins an abiding concern with education, starting with support to teacher training and classroom equipment in newly independent countries. -people and organizations reaffirm their commitment to children’s rights

-NICEF launches a drive to save the lives of millions of children each year. The ‘revolution’ is based on four simple, low-cost techniques: growth monitoring, oral rehydration therapy, breastfeeding and immunization

-The Say Yes for Children campaign builds on this momentum, with millions of children and adults around the world pledging their support for critical actions to improve children’s lives

Impact of ventureImpact of venture

Improve lives of children suffering from diseasesImprove lives of children suffering from diseases Produced by UNICEF, UNAIDS and WHO, the report Produced by UNICEF, UNAIDS and WHO, the report

notes promising developments - increasing numbers of notes promising developments - increasing numbers of children receiving treatment, declining HIV prevalence children receiving treatment, declining HIV prevalence among young people resulting from behavioural among young people resulting from behavioural change, and the integration of children and AIDS into change, and the integration of children and AIDS into national policy frameworks. Yet it also highlights the national policy frameworks. Yet it also highlights the huge gaps in progress that remain and seeks to huge gaps in progress that remain and seeks to explore how the campaign must move forward in 2007 explore how the campaign must move forward in 2007 in order to achieve its ambitious goals. in order to achieve its ambitious goals.

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