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Teaching Hospitals Complex Administration Act, 2016
This Act provides for the establishment of the Teaching Hospitals Complex Administration, which will be responsible for the consistent administration of the specified Teaching Hospitals Complex as outlined in the schedule. The Act also provides for the creation of a Teaching Hospitals Complex Administration Board, which will serve as the governing body of the Administration. Additionally, the Act covers the regulations for the discipline of trainees and staff by the Teaching Hospitals Complex, as well as other related matters.
Sierra Leone • 2016 • Health
Sierra Leone Nursing and Midwifery Council Act, 2023
This Act was introduced to establish the Sierra Leone Nursing and Midwifery Council. The Council’s main purpose is to regulate and oversee the education, training, discipline, certification, registration, and licensing of nurses and midwives throughout Sierra Leone. It also provides for the accreditation of nursing and midwifery educational institutions and regulates the practice of nursing and midwifery. The Act covers various provisions pertaining to the roles, functions, and responsibilities of the Sierra Leone Nursing and Midwifery Council in ensuring standards and quality in the nursing and midwifery profession.
Sierra Leone • 2023 • Health
National Medical Supplies Agency Act, 2017
This Act is introduced to repeal and replace the National Pharmaceutical Procurement Unit Act, 2012. The purpose is to establish the National Medical Supplies Agency as a public service agency responsible for the procurement, warehousing, and distribution of drugs and medical supplies. The Agency operates transparently and adopts cost-effective methods for the benefit of all public institutions across Sierra Leone. The Act covers various provisions related to the functions and responsibilities of the National Medical Supplies Agency.
Sierra Leone • 2017 • Health
Medical Examiners Act, 2021
This Act was introduced to repeal and replace the Coroners Act, 1907 (Cap 9), with the aim of establishing the Office of Medical Examiner. The Act provides for the appointment of the Chief Medical Examiner and other staff members. It also mandates the reporting of reportable deaths and establishes procedures for the investigation and reporting of such deaths. Additionally, the Act covers matters related to public health or safety and the administration of justice. It further addresses other related matters.
Sierra Leone • 2022 • Health
Consumer Protection Act, 2020
Ministry of Health
This Act provides for the protection and promotion of consumer interests. It establishes the National Consumer Protection Commission and addresses other matters related to consumer protection.
Sierra Leone • 2020 • Health
Breast-Milk Substitutes Act, 2021
This Act provides for safe and adequate nutrition for infants and young children by promoting breastfeeding and regulating the marketing of breast milk substitutes. The Act is designed to protect and promote breastfeeding as the optimal method of feeding infants and young children. It addresses other matters related to the promotion of infant and child nutrition as well.
Sierra Leone • 2023 • Health
Counterfeit and Fake Drugs Unwholesome Processed Foods (Miscellaneous Provision) Act 2004
Ministry of Health
This law prohibits the sale of counterfeit, fake drugs and unwholesome processed foods. The Law also prohibits the sale and distribution of counterfeit, adulterated, banned, substandard or expired drugs.
Nigeria • 2004 • Health
National Policy for Controlled Medicines and its Implementation Strategies (2017)
Ministry of Health
This provides regulation on the importation, manufacture, distribution, warehousing, sales and use of controlled medicines (narcotics, psychotropic substances and precursor chemicals) in Nigeria.
Nigeria • • Health
Zimbabwe National Nutrition Strategy 2014-2018
Ministry of Health, Zimbabwe
The first objective of this strategy is to operationalize Commitment V of the Food and Nutrition Security Policy which states that the Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) is committed to ensuring nutrition security for all through the implementation of evidence-based nutrition interventions that are integrated within a broad public health framework including health services, water and sanitation. The second objective is to contribute towards making further progress against the other Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) targets.
Zimbabwe • 2014 • Health
Zimbabwe One Health Antimicrobial Resistance National Action Plan 2017-2021
Ministry of Health, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe • 2017 • Health
The National Health Strategy for Zimbabwe 2016-2020
Ministry of Health, Zimbabwe
The 2016-2020 National Health Strategy builds on the 2009-2013 strategy and its extension in 2014-15 by addressing existing gaps and, more importantly, seeks to sustain the gains achieved thus far through a comprehensive response to the burden of disease and strengthening of the health system to deliver quality health services to all Zimbabweans. The strategy lays out the health agenda for 2016- 2020 taking into account the broader policy context that is largely defined by the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim-Asset) and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Zimbabwe • 2016 • Health
ZimHealth Strategic Plan 2016-2020
Ministry of Health, Zimbabwe
The goal of ZimHealth is to rehabilitate, support and sustain the public health service delivery in Zimbabwe, especially to vulnerable mothers and children.
Zimbabwe • 2016 • Health
Zimbabwe National Nutrition Strategy 2014-2018
Ministry of Health, Zimbabwe
The National Nutrition Strategy emphasizes prevention of malnutrition especially focusing on addressing stunting during the first 1,000 days of life together with a broader mandate to address malnutrition problems affecting the other age-groups of children (2 years and above), adolescents and adults, both females and males, rural and urban, poor and wealthy.
Zimbabwe • 2014 • Health
Public Health (COVID-19 Prevention, Containment and Treatment) (National Lockdown) Order, 2020
Ministry of Health, Zimbabwe
This amends the Public Health (COVID-19 Prevention, Containment and Treatment) (National Lockdown) Order, 2020, published in statutory instrument 83 of 2020.
Zimbabwe • 2020 • Health
Zimbabwe Parliamentarians Against HIV and AIDS (ZIPAH), Statement on HIV, Human Rights and the Law, Meeting at Elephant Hills Hotel, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 20-21 May 2011, 4 pp.
Ministry of Health, Zimbabwe
This is the outcome of the meeting of Zimbabwe Parliamentarians Against HIV and AIDS, representing more than 45 constituencies in Victoria Falls on the 20th and 21st of May 2011.
Zimbabwe • 2011 • Health
National Policy on HIV/AIDS for Zimbabwe 1999
Ministry of Health, Zimbabwe
This National policy on HIV/AIDS has been developed in order to promote and guide present and future responses to AIDS in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe • 1999 • Health
National AIDS Council, Zimbabwe National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan 2011–2015, 69 pp.
Ministry of Health, Zimbabwe
This strategic plan has been developed to provide a strategic framework that will guide and inform the planning, coordination, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the national multi-sectoral and decentralised HIV and AIDS response with the aim of achieving zero new infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS related deaths.
Zimbabwe • 2011 • Health
National AIDS Council, Zimbabwe National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan (ZNASP) 2006-2010, 2006, 38 pp.
Ministry of Health, Zimbabwe
This strategic plan is a road map adopted to fight against AIDS over the period from 2006-2010.
Zimbabwe • 2006 • Health
Zimbabwe One Health Antimicrobial Resistance National Action Plan 2017-2021
Ministry of Health, Zimbabwe
This policy discusses the strategic framework, operational plan, and monitoring and evaluation plan of One Health Antimicrobial Resistance National Action Plan.
Zimbabwe • 2017 • Health
Standard Operating Procedures for the Prevention and Management of COVID-19 and other Influenza like Illness in the Primary and Secondary Education Sector
Ministry of Health, Zimbabwe
These procedures apply to schools and independent colleges that are registered under the Education Amendment Act No. 15 of 2020 as well as all Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education offices, centres and institutional accommodation premises for staff.
Zimbabwe • 2020 • Health