Angola

Under the Constitution, the state shall promote and guarantee the measures needed to ensure the universal right to medical and health care, as well as the right to child care and maternity care, care in illness and disability (art.77). There is also a right to a healthy and unpolluted environment (art.39). 

The Constitution establishes areas with exclusive power to legislate granted to the National Assembly (i.e. areas for which only the National Assembly has the power to legislate). These areas, listed in article 164, include among other things, fundamental rights, freedoms and guarantees of citizens; basic elements of the system for the organization and functioning of local government and the involvement of citizens and traditional authorities in its work, the rules governing the state of emergency, the status and legal capacity of persons (non-exhaustive list), In addition, the Constitution refers to other areas where there is relative legislative competence (i.e. areas falling normally under the competence of the National Assembly with the possibility to grant an authorization to the government to legislate on these issues). These areas, listed in article 165 include , among other, basic elements of the scope and rules governing the public administration, including guarantees for users of the public administration, the status of public administration staff and the civil liability of the public administration, general system for public finances, basic elements of the national education, health and social security systems, definition of sectors within the economy reserved for the state, creation of taxes and the fiscal system and, general elements of town and country and urban planning (non-exhaustive list).

The National Health Policy 2010-2025 was adopted by the Presidential Decree No 262/10.

One of the priorities of the National Health Policy is to strengthen the health system at the municipal level based on Primary Health Care (Objective No 6). Under this objective, the policy includes several elements as the need of human resources ( 6.1.3) as well as medicines (6.1.4) and, for those elements, the policy makes special emphasis on the need to develop appropriate legislation on the citizen's right to health.

Regarding medicines and other pharmaceutical products, the main priority lies in the adoption of legislation and technical standards to regulate the production, acquisition, storage, distribution and rational use of medicines, as well as the supervision of pharmaceutical activities, with a view to guaranteeing safe medicines and pharmaceutical products at affordable prices for the entire population.

Furthermore, the policy (6.3.5) under the same objectives also makes as a priority, the integration of the relationship between health and the environment into national policies, strategies, regulations and development plans. This approach reflects the need for integration, in relation to the adjustment or mismatch identified in the laws and regulations that adapt matters relating to environmental and health issues in Angola.

The analysis of the National Health Development Plan for the period 2012-2025 ("Plano Nacional de Desenvolvimento Sanitário 2012-2025") is under development.