Current Policies
WMA's policies on ethical and social issues
| Title | Tags | Year | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WMA Statement on the Responsibility of Physicians in the Documentation and Denunciation of Acts of Torture or Cruel or Inhuman or Degrading Treatment | Degrading Treatment, Ethics, Human Rights, Inhuman Treatment, Istanbul Protocol, Torture | 2003 | Resolution, Statement | |
| WMA Resolution on the Non-Commercialisation of Human Reproductive Material | Embryo Transfer, Ethics, Gametes, Reproductive Technology | 2003 | Resolution | |
| WMA Statement on Advance Directives (Living Wills) | Advance Directive, End-of-Life Care, Living Will, Patient Autonomy, Self-Determination | 2003 | Statement | |
| WMA Statement on Forensic Investigation of the Missing | Ethics, Forensic Medicine, ICRC, Military Personnel, Missing Persons, Standards, War | 2003 | Statement | |
| WMA Statement on Violence and Health | Advocacy, Data Collection, Medical Training, Prevention, Violence | 2003 | Statement | |
| WMA Declaration of Washington on Biological Weapons | Biological Weapon, Conflicts, Disaster, Preparedness, Public Health, Resistance, Surveillance, Washington | 2003 | Declaration | |
| WMA Statement on Women’s rights to Health Care and How that relates to the Prevention of Mother-to-child HIV infection | Gender Inequality, Health Care, HIV, Human Rights, Mother-to-Child Infection, Pregnancy, Prevention, Woman’s Rights | 2002 | Statement | |
| WMA Resolution on the Abuse of Psychiatry | Abuse, Detention, Dissident, Political Prisoner, Psychiatry | 2002 | Resolution | |
| WMA Statement on Sex Selection Abortion and Female Foeticide | Discrimination, Female Foeticide, Gender Selection | 2002 | Statement | |
| WMA Declaration on Patient Safety | Medical (treatment) Errors, Medical Regulation, Patient Safety, Prevention, Professionalism | 2002 | Declaration | |
| WMA Statement on Safe Injections in Health Care | AIDS, Hepatitis, HIV, Infection, Injections, Needle Stick Injury, Safe injections, Safety, Sterile Equipment | 2002 | Statement | |
| WMA Statement on Self-medication | Information, Marketing, Prescription, Self-Medication | 2002 | Statement | |
| WMA Declaration of Edinburgh on Prison Conditions and the Spread of Communicable Diseases | Communicable Disease, Detention, Edinburgh, Prison, Tuberculosis | 2001 | Declaration | |
| WMA Resolution on the Inclusion of Medical Ethics and Human Rights in the Curriculum of Medical Schools World-Wide | Curriculum, Ethics, Human Rights, Medical School | 1999 | Resolution | |
| WMA Declaration on Principles of Health Care in Sports Medicine | Athletics, Doping, Drug, Enhancement, Ethics, Hormones, Sport, Sports Medicine | 1999 | Declaration | |