Health Legislation

This law was published in the Official Journal on 10 May 2022. It provides measures to fight violence against women.

This decree sets protective measures for pregnant women at their workplace.

These guidelines provide direction to public and private institutions on how to secure a conducive environment for supporting female employees to combine work and breastfeeding. They complement other related materials in the health and nutrition practice.

This Law relates to human reproductive health.

This Act establishes the Chemist Professionals' Council and provides for the powers, functions, management and regulation of the chemist, chemical laboratory technologist and the assistant chemical laboratory technologist, and provides for related matters.

These Regulations outline the rules for acquiring nationality, issuance of the nationality certificates, loss of nationality, civil registry of the South Sudanese nationals, etc.

The Act implement the legal provisions of the National Policy for the advancement of Gambian Women and Girls, and incorporates and enforces the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.

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

This law institutes free treatment of gynaecological cancers by public health establishments for the benefit of women.

The decree sets out the application of decree no. 205-316/PRN/MSP/LCE of November 11, 2005, granting women free caesarean section services provided by public health establishments.

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

This decree grants women free access to caesarean section services provided by public health establishments.

This Act provides for the establishment and constitution of a professional Council for the medical and dental professions; determines the powers, duties and functions of such Council; regulates the registration of medical practitioners and of dentists, and of persons practising certain professions allied to the medical profession or to the dental profession; specifies the education, training and qualifications of persons practising such professions; prohibits the practising of any such profession without being registered; and provides for matters incidental thereto.

This Act determines the circumstances in which and conditions under which the pregnancy of a woman may be terminated; and provides for matters connected therewith.

This law sets the rules governing the organization of the Order of medical and health professions covering nurses, midwives and health technicians.

The law determines which individuals have Nigerien nationality at birth as their nationality of origin. Nigerien nationality is acquired or lost, after birth, by the effect of the present legislation or by decision of the public authority taken under the conditions laid down in this law.

This Ordinance establishes national orders of doctors, pharmacists, dental surgeons and midwives, that are compulsorily grouping all practitioners authorized to practice their profession.

This Ordinance modifies Article 98 of the Ordinance No. 73-38 of April 21, 1973 establishing and organizing the national orders of doctors, pharmacists, dental surgeons and midwives

The Order makes provision for citizenship of Lesotho, for the acquisition, deprivation and renunciation of citizenship, and for related and connected matters.

This law provides the conditions for the acquisition or loss of Algerian nationality.