Providing legal advisory services to Member States

WHO provides its member states with specialized legal assistance focused on helping countries to use health laws to improve a population’s health.   Areas of legal assistance include systematic analysis of the legal framework for a particular health subject, development of detailed recommendations for law reform and contributing to the drafting of new laws and regulations or other specialized legal instruments, governing health.

 WHO’s support is tailored to a country’s needs and circumstances and involves providing careful analysis of the situation in the country being advised, including: its existing legal frameworks, its policy objectives, its institutional capacities and its social, economic and political context.