Current Policies
WMA's policies on ethical and social issues
| Title | Tags | Year | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WMA Declaration of Taipei on Ethical Considerations regarding Health Databases and Biobanks | Biobank, Confidentiality, Consent, Health Database, Opt-Out, Patient Rights | 2016 | Declaration | |
| WMA Statement on Ethical Issues Concerning Patients with Mental Illness | Access, Mental Health, Patients, Stigma | 2006 | Statement | |
| WMA Declaration of Lisbon on the Rights of the Patient | Lisbon, Patient, Patient Charta, Patient Rights, Patient/Physician-Relations, Rights | 2005 | Declaration, Declaration of Lisbon | |
| WMA Declaration of Helsinki – Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Participants | Clinical Study, Ethics, Ethics Committee, Helsinki, Human Participants, Human Subjects, Medical Research, Patient Autonomy, Placebo, Post-Trial Access (to Care), Principle, Publication, Register, Research, Review Committee, Risk Assessment, Subject Protection, Vulnerable Populations | 2024 | Declaration | |
| WMA Statement on Assisted Reproductive Technologies | Assisted Reproductive Technology, Ethics, ICSI, IVF, Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis, Reproductive Medicine, Surrogacy | 2024 | Statement | |
| WMA Statement on Medical Ethics during Public Health Emergencies | Conflict, Disaster, Epidemic, Ethical Principles, Health Emergencies, Pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment, PHEs, PPE, Triage | 2023 | Statement | |
| WMA Statement on Measures for the Prevention and Fight against Transplant-Related Crimes | Crime, End-of-Life Care, International Cooperation, Organ Donation, Organ Procurement, Organ transplantation, Trafficking in Human Organs, Trafficking in Persons for the Purpose of the Removal of Organs, Transplant Surgery | 2020 | Statement | |
| WMA Statement on Augmented Intelligence in Medical Care | Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Intelligence, Data Integrity, Machine Learning, Patient Data | 2019 | Statement | |
| WMA Statement on the Development and Promotion of a Maternal and Child Health Handbook | Child, Continuum of Care, Handbook, Maternal and Child Health, Mother | 2018 | Statement | |
| WMA Statement on Medical Tourism | Ethics, Foreign Patients, Guidelines, Medical Tourism | 2018 | Statement | |
| WMA Statement on Cyber-Attacks on Health and Other Critical Infrastructure | Cyber Intrusion, Cyber-attack, Electronic Medical Records, Health Technology, Information Technology | 2016 | Statement | |
| WMA Declaration on Alcohol | Alcohol, Driving Measures, Harmful, Industry, Marketing, Pricing Policies | 2015 | Declaration | |
| WMA Statement on Natural Variations of Human Sexuality | Bisexual, Conversion/Reparative Therapy, Discrimination, Homosexual, Human Rights, Human Sexuality, Sexual Orientation, Stigmatisation | 2013 | Statement | |
| WMA Declaration of Kigali on the Ethical Use of Medical Technology | Advanced Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Medical Ethics, Medical Technology | 2012 | Declaration | |
| WMA Statement on Organ and Tissue Donation | Donors, Living Donation, Organ Donation, Organs, Tissue Donation, Tissues | 2012 | Statement | |