Doctors for individual vaccination decisions

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Doctors for individual vaccination decisions e. V. is a non-profit organization of doctors who generally consider vaccinations to be part of preventive medical care. The association is committed to the Ottawa Charter of the WHO : "Health promotion aims at a process that enables all people to have a higher degree of self-determination about their health and thus empower them to strengthen their health." (WHO 1986) In the association particularly committed to homeopaths and anthroposophists .

history

The association was founded in 2006. The seat of the association is still Herdecke ; According to the resolution of the general assembly on October 12, 2019, the seat of the association will be relocated to Berlin. The entry in the register of associations of the district court of Hagen was made under the association number VR 30385.

Board

The board elected at the general assembly on October 12, 2019 consists of four people: Jost Deerberg, pediatrician from Hamburg, Michael Friedl, pediatrician from Heidelberg, Steffen Rabe, pediatrician from Munich, and Stefan Schmidt-Troschke, pediatrician from Berlin.

Positions critical to vaccination

Although the association does not see itself as an opponent of vaccinations , it advocates a so-called “individual vaccination decision” or an “alternative vaccination plan”, i.e. contrary to the vaccination plan recommended by the STIKO. In a 2010 manifesto, the association doubts the professional competence of the Standing Vaccination Commission (STIKO), which has already been attested by a court .

At the anti-vaccination demonstration in Berlin in 2019, the association linked its website to anti-vaccination and conspiracy-theoretical associations and organizations in advance , although it only distanced itself from its content upon request and after the demonstration began.

Friedl claims that the eradication of certain infectious diseases cannot be traced back to vaccinations, but to improved hygiene , clean drinking water and a healthy diet . This argument is often used by vaccination opponents and vaccination skeptics, but it is incorrect.

Measles Protection Act

The law, which came into force on March 1, 2020, stipulates that all children from the age of one must show the measles vaccinations recommended by STIKO when entering school or kindergarten . If you are being looked after by a child day-care worker, you will usually have to provide proof of measles vaccination. In the case of school children, admission cannot be refused due to compulsory school attendance. However, parents who do not have their children vaccinated face fines of up to 2500 euros. With an urgent application to the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG), the association wanted to stop the law, but the BVerG rejected this and other urgent applications on May 11, 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Association - In Brief , the Association's website, accessed on March 1, 2020
  2. ↑ Jakob Simmank : Compulsory measles vaccination: Take a deep breath, please . In: The time . Hamburg November 14, 2019 ( zeit.de [accessed March 19, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b Der Verein - Transparency , website of the association, accessed on March 1, 2020.
  4. ↑ doctors for individual Impfentscheidung eV: Wuppertal manifesto. (PDF) October 12, 2010, accessed on March 19, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Nicola Kuhrt: “Anti-Vaccination Demo” becomes a show for conspiracy theorists. In: MedWatch . September 16, 2019, accessed March 19, 2020 .
  6. ^ Anna Vonhoff: Controversial vaccination coverage of the population. In: Focus Online . October 4, 2013, accessed March 19, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Significance of vaccinations - Answers from the Robert Koch Institute and the Paul Ehrlich Institute to the 20 most frequent objections to vaccination. 19: The decline in diseases is a result of improved hygiene and nutrition and has nothing to do with vaccinations. RKI, April 22, 2016, accessed on March 19, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Why vaccination opponents act antisocial. Der Tagesspiegel, August 9, 2018, accessed on March 19, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Compulsory vaccination should protect children from measles , website of the BMG, accessed on March 1, 2020
  10. ^ Constitutional lawsuit : The measles vaccination could fail in the last few meters. The arguments of the various pages , Medscape February 24, 2020, accessed March 1, 2020, accessed March 1, 2020.
  11. ↑ Klaus Hempel: Federal Constitutional Court: Urgent applications against mandatory vaccination rejected. In: tagesschau.de. May 18, 2020, accessed May 18, 2020 .