Federal Act
on Controlling Communicable Human Diseases
(Epidemics Act, EpidA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Of­fice of Pub­lic Health (FOPH) shall, in con­sulta­tion with the can­tons, de­vel­op top­ic-spe­cif­ic na­tion­al pro­grammes for de­tect­ing, mon­it­or­ing, pre­vent­ing and con­trolling com­mu­nic­able dis­eases, in par­tic­u­lar re­la­tion to:

a.

vac­cin­a­tions;

b.

health­care-as­so­ci­ated in­fec­tions and res­ist­ance in the case of patho­gens;

c.

HIV and oth­er sexu­ally trans­mit­ted patho­gens.

² The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons shall im­ple­ment the na­tion­al pro­grammes with­in the scope of their powers.