The Alma Ata Declaration defines its strategy as "Health for All by 2000AD through primary health care. This is in pursuance of the aims declared at the WHO/UNICEFsponsored Conference at Alma-Ata. Primary care has been described as "essential health care based on practical, scientifically accesible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost that a community and a country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the spirit of self-reliance and self-determination." Subsequently, the Alma-Ata declaration outlined that the primary health care is based on the training and scientific orientation provided to health care workers and traditional medical practitioners. Therefore, Medicina Alternativa has established guidelines and regulations outlining the code of ethics that healers are expected to follow consequent to their training, certificate and membership of Medicina Alternativa.
Medicina Alternativa was formed in 1962 and its membership is limited. The aims of Medicina Alternativa are to "advance the scientific study and professional practice of Alternative Medicine and enhance the contribution of Alternative Medicines by encouraging its development by promoting research, laying high standards of professional ethics, competence, conduct, eduaction, qualificationsand achievement amongst practitioners promoting the dissemination of knowledge and thought about Alternative Medicine through meetings, lectures, seminars, workshops, reports, papers, discussions, publications and professional contacts; with wide interest and inquiry into Alternative Medicines and all related areas of knowledge and practice.
For "Hippocratic Oath"