Foreningen for fritt vaksinevalg

Foreningen for fritt vaksinevalg ("Association for Free Vaccine Choice") is a Norwegian advocacy organization founded in 2015 by three physicians: Heiko Santelmann, Sigurd Nes and Idar Magne Elvemo. It presents itself as a defender of the individual's right to make personal health decisions for themselves and their children, and it campaigns against what it describes as pressure to vaccinate. Its stated purpose is to safeguard the right to make one's own choices regarding one's own and one's children's health, and to inform about potential dangers of vaccination. The organization operates primarily as a campaign and information group rather than as a commercial enterprise. Its website, frittvaksinevalg.com, offers downloadable and printable brochures, including material about the coronavirus vaccines, a brochure for parents about vaccinating children, a brochure for young people about the coronavirus vaccines, and a brochure about what it calls the WHO's "power grab" attempt. It also promotes membership sign-up and links to what it describes as relevant websites, books and documentaries. The site states that vaccination in Norway is voluntary, and argues that vaccine passports would deprive unvaccinated people of constitutional and human rights, including under the European Convention on Human Rights, and would amount to discrimination based on a medical choice. The association's public profile is closely tied to its founders' backgrounds in alternative and non-mainstream medicine. According to Norwegian Wikipedia, all three founders have practiced diagnostics outside recognized medicine: Santelmann was among the doctors who in the late 1980s claimed that many Norwegians were ill from the fungus candida, and he has practiced homeopathy and naturopathy; Nes is an anthroposophist who in the early 1990s treated patients he believed had been harmed by the drug Roaccutan; and Elvemo began in the 1980s treating patients he believed suffered from electrosensitivity. The board has also included physician Frank-Leo Eriksen, who has diagnosed patients with chronic borreliosis using methods that are not scientifically recognized. One of the organization's first activities was to invite vaccine opponent Suzanne Humphries to Norway to give lectures. The organization is not a manufacturer, retailer or service provider in the conventional commercial sense; it functions as an advocacy and information brand with a membership base and a publishing operation centered on brochures and online content. It has no known parent company, ownership structure or stock listing. Its activities place it within the broader vaccine-hesitancy and health-freedom movement, and it has been a visible Norwegian voice in debates over vaccination policy, vaccine passports and public health mandates.

Foreningen for fritt vaksinevalg was founded in 2015 by three Norwegian physicians: Heiko Santelmann, Sigurd Nes and Idar Magne Elvemo. The organization emerged within a milieu of doctors who had practiced forms of diagnosis and treatment outside established scientific medicine. Santelmann had been among the doctors who in the late 1980s claimed that very many Norwegians were ill from the fungus candida, and he also practiced homeopathy and naturopathy. Nes is an anthroposophist who in the early 1990s treated patients he believed had suffered health problems from the drug Roaccutan. Elvemo began in the 1980s treating patients he believed suffered from electrosensitivity. The board also included physician Frank-Leo Eriksen, who has diagnosed patients with chronic borreliosis using methods that are not scientifically recognized. One of the association's first activities was to invite the vaccine opponent Suzanne Humphries to Norway to give lectures. From its founding, the organization presented itself as a defender of the right to make one's own choices regarding one's own and one's children's health, and as a source of information about potential dangers of vaccination. Its website has referred exclusively to sources with vaccine-critical content. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the association became more publicly visible in Norwegian debates over vaccination, vaccine passports and public health restrictions. It produced and distributed several brochures, including material on the coronavirus vaccines, a brochure for parents about vaccinating children, a brochure for young people about the coronavirus vaccines, and a brochure about what it describes as the WHO's "power grab" attempt. The brochures are offered free of charge as downloadable PDFs or by mail order, and the association encourages supporters to distribute them. It also promotes membership and links to what it calls relevant websites, books and documentaries. The organization has argued that vaccine passports would deprive unvaccinated people of constitutional rights and would be contrary to human rights under the European Convention on Human Rights, which is incorporated into Norwegian law, and that unvaccinated people would be discriminated against based on a medical choice. It states that vaccination in Norway is voluntary, and that if vaccination is required for certain activities, it is no longer a genuinely voluntary choice. It has also produced a film summarizing its views on the pandemic, the vaccines, how research has been conducted, and the role of industry. The association has no known parent company, ownership structure or stock listing, and it operates as a membership-based advocacy and information organization rather than a commercial manufacturer or retailer. Its history is therefore primarily a record of campaigning, publishing and public debate rather than of commercial milestones.

• 2015

  Foreningen for fritt vaksinevalg is founded by Heiko Santelmann, Sigurd Nes and Idar Magne Elvemo.

• One of the organization's first activities is to invite vaccine opponent Suzanne Humphries to Norway to give lectures.

• The association publishes and distributes brochures on the coronavirus vaccines, for parents about vaccinating children, for young people about the coronavirus vaccines, and about the WHO's alleged power grab.

Vaccine-critical advocacy organization defending voluntary vaccination and opposing vaccine mandates and vaccine passports.

• Brochure about the coronavirus vaccines

  Free downloadable and printable brochure about the coronavirus vaccines.

• Brochure for parents about vaccinating children

  Free brochure aimed at parents regarding vaccination of children.

• Brochure for young people about the coronavirus vaccines

  Free brochure aimed at young people about the coronavirus vaccines.

• Brochure about the WHO's power grab attempt

  Free brochure about what the association describes as the WHO's power grab attempt.

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