Page 73 - Under the “construction of 1,000 health centres” programme, the Ministry of Health built and equipped integrated health and medical centres in regions inhabited by marginal people, to bring preventive and curative care closer to those communities; - For the protection and promotion of civic rights, special vital statistics centres for the issuance of identity cards were set up in communities with marginal populations; - The Ministry for Women‟s Advancement and Family organized a number of collective marriages for pygmies in the South, who then received national identity cards, marriage certificates and birth certificates for their children; - The Ministry of Water and Energy built, equipped and rehabilitated wells, boreholes and water sources for the mountain people of the North and Far North, and for the pygmies of the south; - Environmental legislation under the plan for the indigenous and vulnerable peoples (PPAV) carried out by the national hydrocarbons company under the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project, protects the interests of marginal populations. Cameroon continues to implement socio-economic integration and protection of children, and so-called marginal populations by: - Improving their legal status (acquisition of nationality) under a programme for registering the births of children in the North-West, Adamaoua and Baka and Bakola (pygmy) children in the East province; and periodic campaigns to issue national identity cards for young adults. For instance, in the only UNICEF convergence area (Adamaoua province), 3,850 additional rulings were made on birth certificates; - Promoting income-generating activities for families, to enable them to care better for their children ; - Awareness to the problem of HIV/AIDS. Moreover, surveys are carried out in certain areas of these regions to improve awareness about the vulnerable status of the populations in general, and children in particular. As part of HIV/AIDS programmes and projects targeting orphans and vulnerable children, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Hope for African Children Initiative, Bi-Mult project and the OSIWA project have been identifying and reviewing the needs of this growing category of vulnerable children.