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 on Principles of Health Care for Sports Medicine (revised)
- WMA Statement in Support of Ensuring the Availability, Quality and Safety of All Medicines Worldwide
- WMA Statement on Access of Women and Children to Health Care (revised)
- WMA Statement on Access to Surgery and Anesthesia Care
- WMA Statement on Family Violence (revised)
- WMA Statement on Medical Care for Migrants (revised)
- WMA Statement on Medical Liability (revised)
- WMA Statement on Photoprotection
- WMA Statement on Trade Agreements and Public Health (revised)
- WMA Statement on Women’s Right to Health Care and How that Relates to the Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Infection (revised)
- WMA Resolution on Covid-19 Vaccines and International Travel Requirements
- WMA Resolution on Observer Status for Taiwan to WHO and inclusion as a participating party to the International Health Regulations (IHR) (revised)
- WMA Resolution in support of Myanmar Health Personnel and Citizens
- WMA Resolution in support of the Countries worst affected by the Covid-19 Crisis
- WMA Resolution on the repression of Nicaraguan doctors
- WMA Resolution Supporting the Rights of Patients and Physicians in the Islamic Republic of Iran (revised)
Policies reaffirmed by the 217th Council Session (online), Seoul, April 2021 and the 218th Council Session (online), London, October 2021
- WMA Declaration on Leprosy Control around the World and Elimination of Discrimination against persons affected by Leprosy (with minor revision)
- WMA Recommendation on the Development of a Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism to Permit Audit of Adherence of States to the Declaration of Tokyo (with minor revision)
- WMA Resolution on Child Safety in Air Travel (with minor revision)
- WMA Resolution on North Korean Nuclear Testing (with minor revision)
- WMA Resolution on Plain Packaging of Cigarettes (with minor revision)
- WMA Resolution on the Implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (with minor revision)
- WMA Resolution on the Protection of Health Care Facilities and Personnel in Syria (with minor revision)
Policy Handbook English-Version 2021 (printed in June 2021; 4 MB)