Food, Medicine and Health Care Administration and Control Proclamation No. 661/2009
Solid Waste Management Proclamation No. 513/2007
Social Health Insurance Proclamation No. 690/2010
Regional State Health Service Provision, Administration and Management Proclamations,
provide the legal basis for the promotion of the right to health. These laws have implementation
mechanisms.
Institutional Measures
In order to assure progressive realization of the right to health, a number of institutions directly
related to the health sector have been established. The Ministry of Health; Federal HIV/AIDS
Prevention and Control Council and Office of Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS; Medicine
Fund and Medicine Supply Agency; Centre of Public Health Education; National Health Research
Institute, Ethiopian Food, Medicine, Health Service Administration and Control Authority;
Environments Protection Authority; as well as Regional and City administration Bureau of Health.
Administrative Measures
The Government begun the development of a 20-year rolling Health Sector Development Program
(HSDP) in 1997/98 (1990 EFY), laying down the long-term goals for the health sector, and the
means to attain them through a series of phases.
The HSDP aims to develop a health system, to provide comprehensive and integrated primary care
services, primarily based on community level health facilities. It focuses on communicable and noncommunicable disease prevention and control, common nutritional disorders, environmental health
and hygiene, reproductive health care, maternal and child health, immunization and the treatment
and control of basic infectious diseases like upper respiratory tract infections. It also focuses on
health care administrative issues such as establishing quality health care, human resource
management and financial resource mobilization. Organized community participation has been
encouraged to effectively implement the health extension program and so expand access and
improve the quality of basic health services. To achieve these objectives, procedures have been
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