Health Legislation

This Act provides for the promotion, preservation and maintenance of public health with a view to ensuring the provisions of comprehensive, functional and sustainable public health services to the general public; and provides for other related measures.

This decree regulates the operation of private pharmacies, namely the requirements to be met by the premises of pharmacies and medicine sales points and their minimum areas, the necessary equipment, as well as the rules governing their activity and organization and the respective technical staff.

This Act regulates the private insurance industry by setting out the legal framework for the licensing, operation, and supervision of insurance companies, ensuring solvency, etc.

The Act regulates the registration and management of private health laboratories managed by approved persons and in respect of private health laboratory services to be rendered by private health laboratories, and related matters.

This law provides the general framework for the action of the State in the area of health.

The Code for Public Health and Social Action for People's well -being ("code de la santé publique et de l'action sociale pour le bien être de la population) provides the legal rules applicables to health activities and structures tasked to ensure health protection and promotion. It is important to note that there are reports of a new public health code under development, the latest version that could be retrieved online is however the one provided here (from 1995).

The Code provides rules on the protection and promotion of health in Burkina Faso. The Code is developed around five axes:  a section on general principles of the health system in Burkina Faso as well as health care and service coverage; a section on general protection and promotion of public health, which includes general and specific sanitary measures; a section on health professions and their legal status and a section on rules for pharmaceutical products, other products and traditional pharmacopoeia.  The last part includes the Final Provisions.

The Decree regulates the health care delivery by private entities.

The Public Health Act makes provisions for public and environmental health and other matters connected therewith.

This Act makes provisions for securing and maintaining health.

This law authorizes the private practice of health professions by individuals or legal entities, either individually or as a group, in Mali. It sets out the conditions required, as well as duties and obligations.

This Act makes provision to restrict the management of private hospitals to approved organizations, to control fees and other charges payable in respect of medical treatment and other services rendered by private hospitals, to regulate scales of emoluments payable to medical practitioners employed at private hospitals, and to make provisions connected with those matters.

This Act consolidates the law regarding the preservation of public health.

This Act provides for the prevention and impression of diseases and generally regulates all matters connected with public health in Zambia.

This Act provides the legal framework for the protection and promotion of public health in the country, addressing issues such as disease prevention, sanitation, health surveillance and emergency health measures, etc.