Add to ORKGThis paper aims to investigate the advertising self-regulation of medicines and health products (Products and Services have the same meaning in this research) present in the ethical codes of the advertising industry in Latin America. To do so, it was seek through content analysis, identify, classify and categorize the standards present in the advertising industry codes governing the publicity of medicines and health products. Ethical codes are present in nine countries in Latin America with seven of them are referred to medicines and health products, and only five have specific rules for the sector. In summary, the analyzed codes present in its generality, lenient rules to the sector, bringing instructions mainly to the content of the messa...