Countries Need To Invest Long-Term In Civil Registration

Civil registration is a long-term investment, and countries first need to get the right legislation in place, making it a requirement to register births and deaths. These are the conclusions of Professor Alan Lopez, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia and colleagues, authors of a Comment which accompanies the Who Counts? Series in The Lancet. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Aid / Disasters on October 30th, 2007