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Initiated: September 2003
Adopted by the WMA General Assembly, Helsinki 2003
- The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), an epidemic
that shocked the world in 2003, caused alarmingly high levels
of morbidity and mortality worldwide. It underscored the need
for global strategies to deal with outbreaks and exposed some
fundamental weaknesses in public health systems.
Therefore, it is resolved that:
- The WMA strongly encourage the World Health Organization to
enhance its emergency response protocol to provide for the early,
ongoing and meaningful engagement and involvement of the medical
community globally, including initiating immediate discussion
on the establishment of an effective and real-time means of
communicating reliable, evidence-based information to front-line
workers and the establishment of reliable sources of products
and materials needed to safeguard the health of front-line health
professionals and their patients.
17.9.2003
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