Vision

2. Vision The World Medical Association (WMA) is the global federation of National Medical Associations representing the millions of physicians worldwide. Acting on behalf of patients and physicians, the WMA endeavors to achieve the highest possible standards of medical care, ethics, education and health-related human rights for all people.

3. Foundation

4. Membership 102 National Medical Associations from around the World representing more than 9 million physicians. Individual physicians can join as Associate Members.

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6. Fields of Activities • reaching global consensus on medical ethics • guidance on problems of medical ethics • socio-medical affaires • representation to international Organizations e.g. UN, WHO, UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF, ILO, IOM, IFPMA • support for the regional and national physicians associations (on request) • support for the development of physicians’ self-government • projects along this line

7. Bodies • General Assembly (yearly) • Council (2 x year) • Executive Committee (on demand) • Committees (2 x year)

8. Committees • Medical Ethics Committee • Socio-Medical Affairs Committee • Finance and Planning Committee

9. Organs • „Officers“ • President, President Elect, Immediate Past President • Chair of Council, Vice-Chair of Council • Treasurer • Chairpersons of the 3 committees • Official • Secretary General

10. Secretariat

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12. Historical Documents 1991/2006 Declaration of Malta Hunger Strikers

13. Themes • International Code of Medical Ethics, Patient Advocacy and Patients‘ Rights, Ethics in the Event of Disasters, Advance Directives (“Living Wills”), Access to Health Care, Economy and Health, Armed Conflict, Child Abuse an Neglect, Medical Liability Reform, Torture, • Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Abortion, Human Reproductive Material, Genetics, Terminal Illness, Death and the Recovery of Organs, Organ Donation and Transplantation, Medical Education • Physicians and Commercial EnterprisesMedical Research, Animal Use in Biomedical ResearchPatient Safety, Patients with Mental Illness Physicians and Public Health, Avian and Pandemic Influenza,Environmental Issues, Adolescent Suicide, Obesity, Opiate and Psychotropic Drug Abuse, Injury Control, Alcohol and Road Safety, Traffic Injury, Medical Assistance in Air Travel, Child Safety in Air Travel, Smoking in Public Places, SARS, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Emergencies Communication and Coordination, MigrationOrgan Donation in China, Support of the Bolivian MedicalAssociation, Investigation of the Missing, Nuclear Testing • Enviroment and Health

14. Policies • Resolutionspecific, limited in region or time • Statementrefers to overarching problems • Declarationrelating to fundamental questions

15. How are policies been made?

16. Committee Level

17. Council Level

18. General Assembly

21. Thursday GA-Schedule Tuesday Thursday Friday Wednesday Saturday 08:00 Council Council 180 Assoc. Members Members Council 09:00 Medical Ethics Scientific Session General Assembly 10:00 Work Groups 11:00 General Assembly Finance & Planning 12:00 Finance Group Luncheon Session 13:00 Special Function 14:00 Executive committee Council 180 Socio-Medical Affaires Work Groups/ Free time Scientific Session General Assembly 15:00 16:00 Work Groups Council Credentials 17:00 18:00 Reception Reception & Dinner Reception & Dinner 19:00 Special Functions 20:00

22. Recent Achievements Education Medical Ethics Manual Course on Prison Medicine Course on Tuberculosis and one on MDR-TB Infection control Speaking Books

23. Recent Achievements Human Rights Teaching Courses to implement the Istanbul Protocol Individual interventions Conference on health as human right in the middle east Multi-partner approach to demand from WHO to report attacks on health personnel

24. Recent Achievements Caring Physiciansof the World Advocacy Book Conferences Leadership Course

25. Recent Achievements • Advocacy • Intensifying contact to United Nations, WHO and ILO • Bringing our views on NCDs to the UN • Focussing on Social Determinants of health • Joining the Global Health Work Force Alliance • Bringing physicians views and interests on the table

26. Recent (2012) I • Medical Ethics and Advanced Technology • Abuse of Psychiatry • Regulations in Time of Armed Conflict and Other Situations of Violence • Organ and Tissue Donation • WMA’s Prohibition of Physician Participation in Capital Punishment • Electronic Cigarettes and Other Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems • Violence in the Health

27. Recent (2012) II • Violence in the Health • Ethical Implications of Collective Action by Physicians • Forced and Coerced Sterilisation • Prioritisation of Immunisation • Minimum Price for Alcohol • Plain Packaging of Cigarettes • Resolution in Support of Professor Cyril Karabus • All policy is reviewed at least every 10 years

28. Teaming Up • World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA) • (www.whpa.org) • Leadership seminars • Public events in Geneva (Patient safety) • Work on • Counterfeits in medicine • Tobacco control • HIV/AIDS • Fighting stigma in mental health

29. Positive Practice Environments PPE - Campaign

30. Teaming Up • World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA) • (www.whpa.org) • Non-Communicable Diseases • taking a broader perspective than WHO • providing a simple but universal tool • WHPA Health Improvement Card

31. WHPA

32. Expert Conferences • Declaration of Helsinki • Helsinki 2008 • Cairo 2008 • Sao Paulo 2008, 2010, 2011 • Rotterdam 2012 • Cape Town 2012 • Tokyo 2013 • Climate Change - Copenhagen 2009 • Task shifting - Reykjavik 2009 • Finance Crisis and Health 2010

33. Caring, Ethics, Science www.wma.net