Health Legislation

These Guidelines outline standardized protocols for voluntary testing and counselling to enhance access to HIV services, ensure informed consent, and promote client confidentiality and support.

The Kenya National Guidelines for Quality Obstetrics and Perinatal Care provide a comprehensive framework to ensure safe, effective, and respectful maternity care, aiming to improve health outcomes for mothers and newborns throughout the perinatal period.

The Kenya National Guidelines for the Implementation of the Basic Care Package offer a structured approach to delivering essential health services to vulnerable populations, focusing on comprehensive care, prevention, and treatment to improve overall health outcomes.

The Kenya National Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines for Health Services (2010) provide essential protocols and best practices to prevent and control infections in healthcare settings, ensuring the safety of patients, staff, and the community.

This Guidance Framework outlines strategies and standards to ensure high-quality, client-centered HIV testing and counselling services, promoting accuracy, safety, and confidentiality in the process.

This Proclamation regulates activities in respect of food, medicine, environmental health, health professionals, health and controllable health related institutions in the country.

These Guidelines outline a framework for transferring HIV/AIDS service delivery responsibilities from central to local levels, promoting community involvement and improving access to care.

This Act controls the production, manufacture, sale, labelling, advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco products, provides for the Tobacco Control Board, regulates smoking in specified areas and connected purposes.

This Act provides for the training, registration and licensing of nutritionists and dieticians; provides for the regulation of the standards, and practice of the profession; ensures their effective participation in matters relating to nutrition and dietetics, and for connected purposes.

These guidelines provide the required standards on the establishment, registration, management and supervision of early childhood development (ECD) services. These are to ensure the effective implementation of ECD programmes.

These guidelines provide a comprehensive framework aimed at addressing the dual burden of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV in the country. The guidelines emphasize the importance of integrated service delivery to improve health outcomes for individuals affected by both diseases.

This Act provides measures for the prevention, management and control of HIV and AIDS, provides for the protection and promotion of public health and the appropriate treatment, counselling, support and care of persons infected or at risk of HIV and AIDS infection, and connected purposes.

These regulations establish the Health Professionals Council. The council has, among other things, the following attributions: advise the Minister; work in collaboration with the appropriate bodies, ensure that health professional training offered in the country is of high standard; make sure that professional ethics are observed by professionals; follow up and supervise that the names of registered professionals and those who are cancelled from the registry due to various reasons are properly kept by the secretariat.

The Proclamation regulates different aspects of Public Health such as food quality control and standards (Articles 8 and 9); water quality control (Article 10); occupational health (Article 11), waste handling and disposal (Article 12); availability of toilet facilities in health institutions (Article 13); control of bathing places and pools (Article 14); disposal of dead bodies (art.15); control at entrance and exit ports in Ethiopia making mandatory vaccines for people coming from outside (Article 16); and Communicable Diseases (art.17).

This Act provides for the training, registration and licensing of medical laboratory technicians and technologists, provides for the establishment, powers and functions of the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board, and for connected purposes.

This Act makes provision for the registration of persons and for the issue of identity cards, and for purposes connected therewith.

The Constitution was promulgated in 1995. It includes 106 articles addressing a large number of issues as the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms, the fundamental principles of the state and institutional arrangements.

This Act makes provisions for the training, registration and licensing of clinical officers; to regulate their practice and for connected purposes.

This Act makes provisions for securing and maintaining health.

This Act amends and consolidates the Law relating to insurance, and regulates the business of insurance and connected purposes.