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Table 2 Infant exclusively breastfed at DTaP-IPV-Hib-HBV 3rd dose rate (%) between 2017 and 2022

From: Revival of the mother-baby friendly initiative (MBFI) in South Africa: towards a quality improvement project

Province

2017/18

2018/19

2019/2020

2020/2021

2021/2022

Eastern Cape

46.7

50.0

48.2

45.2

43.2

Free State

53.8

53.8

53.6

46.4

44.0

Gauteng

47.4

46.1

45.7

45.2

46.6

KwaZulu-Natal

56.0

57.3

56.5

56.7

56.4

Limpopo

39.2

43.0

40.3

38.1

32.4

Mpumalanga

48.5

52.2

51.9

43.0

38.9

Northern Cape

56.0

55.3

55.9

52.7

49.0

North West

56.9

56.3

59.7

41.6

34.3

Western Cape

34.4

38.7

39.7

37.6

40.4

South Africa

47.8

49.5

48.8

45.9

44.6

  1. Data from WebHDIS, extracted May 2022