Health Legislation

This order establishes the essential medicines list; this list is revised every three years (article 10).

The decree defines the health benefit package of the universal health insurance scheme.

The National Health Insurance Scheme Medicines List of 2023 provides a revised version of the Medicines List.

The Kenya Essential Medicines List 2023 builds on past efforts of reviewing the Kenya Essential Medicines List and ensures that medicines required at all the healthcare levels are included to guide efforts to improve access, in line with achieving Universal Health Coverage.

These regulations were developed in the exercise of the powers conferred by sections 24, 30, 46)2), 47(5) and 50(1) of the Social Health Insurance Act, 2023, by the Cabinet Secretary for Health, in consultation with the Board for the Social Health Authority.

This Order provides for the creation, organization and operation of the program called the National Health Education Programme.

The Decree establishes the health benefit package covered under the Universal Health Insurance. The decree was published on 25 November 2023 in the Official Journal.

The Essential Medicines and Health Supplies List for Uganda (EMHSLU) 2023 reflects the policy of the Ministry of Health, for the appropriate procurement of safe and efficacious essential medicines, health and laboratory supplies in public institutions.

This Law amends Articles 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23, 25, 27, 31, 33, 36, 37, 38, 42, 45, 47, 51, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 65, 66, 80 and 86 of the Law No 2020-37 protecting the health of people in the Republic of Benin.

This document provides the list of essential medicines.

The document establishes the National List of Essential Medicines and Other Health Products.

The Decree specifies the application of certain provisions of the law establishing the Universal Health Insurance Scheme, such as affiliation and registration, the insured person's card, care benefits covered, the assumption of responsibility for benefits, health care providers, among other aspects.

The document guides the operationalization of Medicine and Therapeutics Committee Manual in Rwanda to ensure the safe, effective, and efficient management and use of medicines and health supplies in the health facility.

This Act repeals and replaces the Public Health Act of 1960, provides for the promotion, protection and improvement of public health and well-being in Sierra Leone, provides for the protection of individuals and communities from public health risks, provides for the prevention and control of the spread of infectious diseases, provides for local government and community participation in protecting public health, provides for early detection and prompt response to diseases and public health threats and provides for other related matters.

This document provides the benefits package of the National Health Insurance Scheme as offered to its beneficiaries through private health providers.

The decree provides the modalities for establishing the list of essential medicines. It was published in the Official Journal of 31 May 2021 (pages 12 -13).

The Decree approves the National List of Essential Medicines. 

The purpose of this law is to organize the protection of the health of the population, and to define the obligations imposed on citizens in the event of communicable, non-communicable, contagious diseases or epidemics. It applies to any person living in the Republic of Benin or entering Benin territory.

The document establishes the list of essential medicines in the Republic of Guinea.

These Instructions establish the methodology to determine the community-based health insurance benefit package.