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Caribbean coun­tries are to ben­e­fit from the re­newed agree­ment be­tween the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) and Bloomberg Phil­an­thropies to en­hance civ­il reg­is­tra­tion and vi­tal sta­tis­tics (CRVS) sys­tems in the Amer­i­c­as.

PA­HO said that the agree­ment will be “sup­port­ing coun­tries and ter­ri­to­ries of the Caribbean to im­prove the qual­i­ty and avail­abil­i­ty of vi­tal sta­tis­tics to in­crease the pro­por­tion of ac­cu­rate­ly and com­plete­ly reg­is­tered births and deaths, and to mod­ernise sys­tems”.

It said that the agree­ment ex­pands on­go­ing work un­der the glob­al Da­ta for Health (D4H) ini­tia­tive, aimed at im­prov­ing how coun­tries col­lect and use da­ta on births, deaths, and caus­es of death to shape pub­lic health poli­cies.