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Editorial annoucing an upcoming series of papers in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization that aims to draw the attention to the potential contributions of  the health sector to improve civil registration and vital statistics systems.

Author
Carla AbouZahr, Martin W. Bratschi, Daniel Cobos Muñoz, Romain Santos, Nicola Richards, Ian Riley and Philip Setel
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World Health Organization
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WHO
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  • 290 million children, or 45% of all children under the age of 5, do not have a birth certificate.

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