Australian Medical Association

The Position Statement on Human Genetic Issues 1998. Revised 2000. Revised 20021 outlines the AMA's views on diverse issues such as genetic privacy and non-discrimination, performance of medical genetic testing, patents,cloning, and eugenics. In 2010, paragraph 6.7 of the position statement was slightly amended to align it with recent changes to privacy legislation that allow health practitioners to use or disclose patients' genetic information, whether or not they give consent, in circumstances where there is reasonable belief that doing so is necessary to lessen or prevent a serious threat to the life, health or safety of their genetic relatives.