Mission

Enhance ethical interactions
among the actors of the healthcare ecosystem

Goals

The Ethical Health Alliance in Mexico aims to strengthen the health sector’s integrity standards and promote an ethical healthcare environment. It is a Consensus Framework based on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Mexico City Principles and Kuala Lumpur Principles.

The initiative's objectives are to:

• Foster dialogue, trust and respect among participants and members of the public and private Mexican healthcare ecosystem, its value chains, and the
  academia.

• Promote honest interaction and integral collaborations among the participants of this Alliance.

• Encourage honest and upright conduct throughout the chain value and/or with all individuals and companies with whom participants interact. Signatories will ensure to educate, include, and align their value chain on the ethical principles agreed in
  the Alliance.

• Promote social trust in the healthcare ecosystem by demonstrating a shared commitment with integrity and transparency.

Stakeholders

The Mexican Consensus Framework was launched in November 2022 and signed by 17 healthcare stakeholders including the biopharmaceutical industry (AMIIF and AFAMELA), the medical device industry (AMID), hospital and healthcare professionals associations, academic institutions and seven patients organisations.

Activities

The Ethical Health Alliance is based in the following principles:
I. Healthcare and patient focus: all activities shall promote integrity and enhance the health and wellbeing of the patient and the community.
II. Effectiveness, efficiency, safety, and sustainability: continuous commitment to improve outcomes in the health ecosystem through responsible innovation,
creation and use of evidence, waste reduction and productive use of limited resources.
III. Respect the independence: create a space in which all actors in the healthcare ecosystem freely express their opinion. Strengthening the independence of
each one of them.
IV. Prevention of conflicts of interest.
V. Non-discrimination: all actions must be carried out considering diversity, social inclusion, gender focus and non-discrimination.
VI. ESG principles: the signatories undertake to propose actions aligned with ESG standards (environment, society, and governance). Actions in favour of the
protection and improvement of the environment, diversity, and inclusion.

Additionally, all signatories agree to publish their codes of ethics and/or their codes of conduct on their websites. Moreover, they will have an internal or external whistleblowing and whistleblower support channel.

The initiative offers seminars for compliance officers to raise awareness on the importance of codes of conduct and/or codes of ethics, and share experiences designing and implementing compliance programmes in practice.