Integration of health services with birth registration mechanisms in Uganda
UNICEF Uganda/2025Without a birth certificate, children are invisible to their governments. They miss out on essential public services that help secure their most fundamental rights – like health care and schooling – and on social safety nets meant to reduce a child’s risk of exploitation and abuse.
Thanks to an automated registration system, launched in 2010 with support from UNICEF, birth registration rates for children under 5 have risen in the recent years
The Mobile Vital Record System (Mobile VRS) captures and transmits a child’s information by mobile phone from the community and by a web-based application from hospitals. It is then uploaded directly into a central government server in real time. This information is accessible to the respective registration officers of a given registration area, who verify it for completeness and consistency, before a birth notification is printed, signed and issued to the registered child.
Operational in hospitals and in local governments, Mobile VRS is ensuring that children are not left without an official identity and legal protection.
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