Policy
WMA's Policies on Ethical and Social Issues
The Handbook of WMA Policy is issued as a record of the World Medical Association’s stance on a variety of ethical and social issues. The issues are usually important factors in human health and are relevant to physicians worldwide. Some of the Declarations have needed revision in light of new knowledge or to improve the sometimes awkward wording that inevitably occurs when people of different tongues deliberate together. This dynamic process shows that the WMA is a constantly evolving, unique organization, ideal to act as a protector of patients’ best interests, and as advocates for the medical profession.
- WMA Declaration of Geneva (revised)
- WMA Declaration of Chicago on Quality Assurance in Medical Education
- WMA Declaration of Malta on Hunger Strikers (revised)
- WMA Declaration on Alcohol (revised)
- WMA Declaration on Health and Climate Change (revised)
- WMA Statement on Access to Health Care (revised)
- WMA Statement on Armed Conflict
- WMA Statement on Boxing (revision)
- WMA Statement on Bullying and Harassment
- WMA Statement on Child Abuse (revision)
- WMA Statement on the Cooperation of National Medical Associations during or in the Aftermath of Conflicts
- WMA Statement on Epidemics and Pandemics
- WMA Statement on Fair Medical Trade
- WMA Statement on HIV/AIDS and the Medical Profession (revised)
- WMA Statement on Medical Cannabis
- WMA Statement on Medical Education (revised)
- WMA Statement on Medical Ethics in the Event of Disasters (revised)
- WMA Statement on Organ and Tissue Donation (revised)
- WMA Statement on the Role of Physicians in Preventing Exploitation in Adoption Practices
- WMA Statement on Water and Health (revised)
- WMA Resolution on Medical Assistance in Air Travel (revised)
- WMA Resolution on Poland
- WMA Resolution on Prohibition of Forced Anal Examinations to Substantiate Same-Sex Sexual Activity
- WMA Resolution on Tuberculosis (revised)
Policies reaffirmed with minor revision by the 207th Council Session in Chicago
- WMA Declaration of Hamburg concerning Support for Medical Doctors Refusing to Participate in or to Condone the Use of Torture or Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment
- WMA Statement on Family Planning and the Right of a Woman to Contraception
- WMA Statement on Noise Pollution
- WMA Resolution on Support of the Medical Associations in Latin America and the Caribbean
- WMA Resolution on Economic Embargoes and Health