Report on the WFAS Executive Committee in 2020

Abstract

The 2020 Annual Conference of World Federation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Netherland was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 28th and 29th November, a substitute conference was held to be both on-site and online at the Hilton Haikou Meilan in Hainan, China. The Executive Committee (EC) was convened in the evening on 28th November, and 59 out of 107 EC members were attended. In this committee, the JSAM submitted a recommendation that the Declaration of Helsinki was supposed to be included under the WFAS Code of Ethics since the former EC meeting had approved the addition of the article officially. In addition, WFAS Standardization Committee was scheduled after the EC meeting and focused on clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for acupuncture. Brief summaries of presentations regarding CPGs were introduced in this article.