Health Legislation

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

The decree provides the National List of Essential Medicines.

This Law relates to human reproductive health.

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.

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.