Template:Animal liberation movement Americans for Medical Advancement (AFMA) is a charity that aims to promote human health by exposing the risks of using animal models and by diverting money away from experimentation on animals. The AFMA states: "Animal-modeled biomedical research yields results that cannot be safely applied to humans. It diverts research dollars that should be going to proven methods of curing human disease." Dr. Ray Greek is president of AFMA, as well as Europeans for Medical Progress (formerly Europeans for Medical Advancement) and Japanese for Medical Advancement. He is science advisor for the National Anti-Vivisection Society, and is husband of co-founder Jean Swingle Greek, a veterinarian also active in many of these groups.
Critics of the group, such as the similarly-named Americans for Medical Progress, dismiss it as a shell organization that "exists primarily as a website to publicize the views and promote the book" of founders Ray and Jean Greek, and assert that it ignores the significant medical advances made through animal-based research.
The arguments used by Europeans for Medical Progress (the same as those used by Americans for Medical Advancement) are inaccurate and misleading according to a ruling[1] of the Advertising Standards Authority - an independent UK watchdog making sure all advertising, wherever it appears, meets the high standards laid down in the advertising codes.