The Open International University for Complementary Medicines was founded in 1962 as per the World Health Organization Alma Ata Declaration and accorded international recognition to make alternative medicines popular. The I.C.A.M. & I.U.A.M were founded years later, as a part of O.I.U.C.M. to aid in the mandate to bring about a better understanding of health as it relates to mankind by increasing public awareness and the popularity of alternative medicines.
 
 
MEDICINA ALTERNATIVA, ALMA ATA 1962 AFFILIATED TO THE OPEN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINES
Established by Prof. Dr. Anton Jayasuriya
This International Organization formed in 1962 congruent to the policy objectives of the WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION. In 1962 The WHO and UNICEF sponsored an International Conference in USSR at Alma Ata, at the University of Kazakhstan At this conference the ALMA ATA DECLARATION defined a
 

global strategy for public health and preventive medicine which epitomized as "HEALTH FOR ALL BY 2000 A.D." This strategy entails the use of all available healing methods both Orthodox and Traditional and  Medicina Alternativa was formed as an international society under the guidelines of THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, and registered under the legal enactments of USSR in Alma Ata in 1962. Its membership was limited to those who attended that meeting. Delegates from 46 countries were represented. The first Chairman was Prof. V. Inyushin of the Department of Biophysics of the University of Khazakstan in USSR. The co-chairman was Prof. Dr. Jos Schade, the celebrated neurologist from Holland.

A  Summary of aims is as follows :-