Health Legislation

The purpose of this law is to provide for the rules relating to the civil status of citizens, civil status documents, as well as procedures for registering civil status events and their computerized management. It guarantees every person the enjoyment of the right to recognition in all places of their legal personality.

The document provides the national list of essential medicines from 2016.

The short title of this Act is the Health Ministry Act. This Act amends the 1972 Act establishing the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to create and establish the Ministry of Health.

The purpose of this law is to protect the rights of individuals in the processing of personal data.

This document provides a comprehensive framework for the delivery of essential primary care services and medicines through the community health system.

The Law establishes the Health Code that codifies legislative texts concerning Public Health in Madagascar.

The Law establishes provisions relating to the hospital reform and applies to all hospital establishments in Madagascar.

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

The Constitution of Madagascar was adopted in 2010. It consists of 168 Articles that are grouped into seven titles. The Constitution addresses a wide range of issues such as the fundamental principles of the State, freedoms, rights and obligations of the citizens, organization of the State, key organs of the state, etc.

The law makes rules on HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment and Control.

The law regulates social protection in Guinea-Bissau, including funding systems.

The purpose of this law is to combat the spread of the disease caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) leading to the reduction and loss of the body's immune defenses, resulting in Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); to protect people living with HIV/AIDS against all forms of discrimination or stigmatization; and to reaffirm their fundamental rights and freedoms in accordance with international human rights instruments.

This Decree provides provisions on the organization of health services in the company (médecine d'entreprise).

The Decree defines the basis for the Workers' Social Security system

The Constitution of the Republic of Liberia is the supreme law of the state. The Constitution of Liberia establishes the core principles and values of the organization of the state, delineates the division of powers within the states, establishes the key rights, freedoms and obligations, and sets up the core state institutes and bodies. The Constitution of Liberia consists of 97 articles that are grouped into 13 chapters, that are supplemented by one schedule.

The Constitution was promulgated in 1984 and modified in 1996. It includes 133 articles addressing a wide array of issues including among other things fundamental rights and freedoms, the fundamental principles of the State and institutional arrangements.

This Law provides a framework to govern public health in Liberia by focusing on the control of acute communicable diseases and conditions, environmental sanitation, health standards of public and private institutions, regulation of drugs, disposal of human remains, as well as regulation and supervision of medical and allied health professions.

This Act provides a framework for governing labor relations in Liberia by establishing the rules of the recruitment of labor, conditions of employment, administration, etc.

These Standard Operating Procedures outline the framework for the management, distribution, and delivery of essential health supplies at the community level.