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IDF Europe 21st - 23rd September 2007 AFDs
presentation G RAYMOND, AFD National President
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AFD a patients organization

• Led by patients
• independent and free of any trusteeship
• Committed and responsible

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AFD a patients organization

• 130 000 members
• 127 local associations
• 2000 militant volunteers

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AFD a patients organization

• leader of the cause of diabetes in France
• privileged negotiating partner of public powers

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AFD a patients organization

• To defend the right
• To inform and train patients
• To produce an improvement of the patients
  quality of life
• To carry out a preventative and educational
  mission

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AFD a patients organization

• represent health users by sitting on
• the national health symposium
• Caisse National dAssurance Maladie council
• HAS (the French National Health Authority)

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AFD a patients organization

• Strength of proposals on
• reinforcement of a genuine policy of prevention
  insuring a global and upfront medical support
• development of individualised programmes
• putting a stop to discrimination

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AFD a patients organization

• membership of the IDF
• partnership with the Association pour les Jeunes
  Diabetiques, the AJD (the French association for
  youths with diabetes) World Diabetes Day

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AFD a patients organization

• We decided to put in place actions of mutual aid
  and education in Europe, particularly in eastern
  Europe,
• and worldwide toward countries with a francophone
  culture.

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AFD a patients organization

• We are waiting for
• IDF Europes board
• to introduce our initiatives and
• to support them along with
• the European commission

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AFD a patients organization

• It is in uniting our efforts
• with the sole objective of the improvement of the
  quality of life of people suffering from diabetes
  that we will best accomplish
• our associative mission.