In an effort to enhance birth registration, Zambia has with the help of the United Nations and other partners set up about 806 birth registration desks at various health facilities across the country.

Speaking to Journalists in Lusaka, UNICEF representative to Zambia Noala skinner says the UN and the Zambian government have bridged the gap between poverty and the lack of registration of births.

Ms. Skinner is happy that the transformation in the health sector is developing hand in hand with the birth registration desks.

Following the amendment of the births and deaths registration act in 2016, which saw the decentralisation of the births and deaths registration, people no longer have to travel to Lusaka for that purpose.

6 out of 10 provinces of Zambia now have operational decentralised printing systems of birth certificates which is done immediately a child is born or at the first attendance of the under-five clinic.

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