The Minister of Health and Public Hygiene is responsible for the implementation and monitoring of the Government's health and public hygiene policy.

In this capacity, and in liaison with the other ministerial departments concerned, he has the initiative and responsibility for the following actions:

I - In health matters:

• development and monitoring of the application of health texts;
• development and monitoring of the application of health texts;
• health protection of the population;
• organization of care;
• professional training of health workers;
• promotion of medical research, particularly for endemics, in liaison with the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research;
• control of major endemics, including malaria, tuberculosis, HIV-AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, leprosy and Buruli ulcer diseases;
• therapeutic management of HIV-AIDS patients, therapeutic prevention of mother-to-child transmission;
• fight against drug addiction, alcoholism, smoking and other addictions:
• fight against cancer ;
• development of occupational health, in liaison with the Minister of Labor;
• development of disease prevention and primary health care;
• epidemiological surveillance and health surveillance;
• provision of the various development sectors, epidemiological data on HIV-AIDS infection;
• strengthening of the health system;
• strengthening of health security;
• authorization of creation and control of private health establishments;
• facilitating the installation of health actors in the private sector;
• development of the national health information management system;
• development of a national network of emergency services and patient transportation;
• development of a network of medical biology laboratories;
• regulation and control of medicines and pharmaceutical services;
• authorizing the creation and promotion of the pharmaceutical industry, in liaison with the Minister of Industry;
• promotion of the generic drug, especially in the area of ​​AIDS treatment;
• organization and promotion of traditional medicine and pharmacopoeia;
• coordination of humanitarian aid for health;
• assistance to local authorities for the monitoring and control of the establishment of public health facilities;
• promotion of the assumption of health costs and expenses by the populations through mutuals and health insurance, in liaison with the Minister in charge of Social Affairs;
• promotion of associations of chronic patients, in particular those suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, epilepsy, sickle cell disease, AIDS, and associations of patients on dialysis;
• development and implementation of health programs specific to vulnerable groups, including prison populations, displaced people, in precarious situations, in liaison with the Minister of Social Affairs,
• setting up and monitoring a national ethics committee for the life and health sciences;
• definition and implementation of a plan to fight against zoonoses, in liaison with the Minister of Animal and Fisheries Resources;
• development and monitoring of the implementation of the health regulations for cosmetics and personal hygiene, in conjunction with the Ministries in charge of Trade and Industry;
• fight against communicable diseases and neglected tropical diseases.

II - In terms of public hygiene:

• development and monitoring of regulations on public hygiene;
• design, implementation and monitoring of the Government's medical waste policy, in liaison with the Minister of Health and the Environment;
• evaluation and monitoring of the regulation of food and medicinal products, in liaison with the Ministers in charge of Agriculture, Animal Resources and Fisheries;
• proposing and implementing incentives, incentives or sanctions for local communities and local authorities in carrying out public hygiene operations;
• development and monitoring of the implementation of the health regulation of cosmetic and personal hygiene products, in liaison with the Ministers in charge of Trade and Industry.