Health Legislation

The document provides the national list of essential medicines from 2016.

The short title of this Act is the Health Ministry Act. This Act amends the 1972 Act establishing the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to create and establish the Ministry of Health.

This document provides a comprehensive framework for the delivery of essential primary care services and medicines through the community health system.

The law establishes the conditions for the attribution, acquisition, loss and reacquisition of nationality.

The law makes rules on HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment and Control.

The law regulates social protection in Guinea-Bissau, including funding systems.

The Decree defines the basis for the Workers' Social Security system

The Constitution of the Republic of Liberia is the supreme law of the state. The Constitution of Liberia establishes the core principles and values of the organization of the state, delineates the division of powers within the states, establishes the key rights, freedoms and obligations, and sets up the core state institutes and bodies. The Constitution of Liberia consists of 97 articles that are grouped into 13 chapters, that are supplemented by one schedule.

The Constitution was promulgated in 1984 and modified in 1996. It includes 133 articles addressing a wide array of issues including among other things fundamental rights and freedoms, the fundamental principles of the State and institutional arrangements.

This Law provides a framework to govern public health in Liberia by focusing on the control of acute communicable diseases and conditions, environmental sanitation, health standards of public and private institutions, regulation of drugs, disposal of human remains, as well as regulation and supervision of medical and allied health professions.

This Act provides a framework for governing labor relations in Liberia by establishing the rules of the recruitment of labor, conditions of employment, administration, etc.

These Standard Operating Procedures outline the framework for the management, distribution, and delivery of essential health supplies at the community level.