CONTENTS
Table of Contents
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Acronyms and Abbreviations
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Executive Summary
iii
1.
Introduction
1
2.
General Measures of Implementation
3
3.
Definition of the Child
10
4.
General Principles
11
5.
Civil Rights and Freedoms
17
6.
Family Environment and Alternative Care
25
7.
Health and Welfare
30
8.
Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities
50
9.
Special Protection Measures
57
10.
Responsibilities of the Child
73
List of Tables
1.
Estimates of infant and child mortality rates
34
2.
Nutritional Status: Moderate to severely malnourished Rates
35
3.
Maternal health and rates of immunization
36
4.
Immunization rates in Zanzibar 2000 – 2005
36
5.
Percentage of children under five years of age sleeping under
a mosquito net 2004/05
6.
38
Knowledge on MTC of HIV/AIDS among women and men aged
15 – 49, 2004 – 2005
7.
42
Percentage of women and men aged 15 – 49 years engaged in higher
Sexual intercourse and condom use 2004/05
44
8.
Number of people infected with HIV in Zanzibar
45
9.
Net and Gross Enrolment Rates in STD I and STD I- VII 2000 – 2005
51
10.
Enrolment in alternative education in Zanzibar by sex 2002 – 2005
55
11.
Rates of addicted cases
67
12.
Population by age and sex for the age group (0-18) in Tanzania
94
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