Our goals
Our common objective is to develop and defend universal access to high-quality, affordable healthcare along with social protection based on solidarity and democracy.
Our missions
- Working with European and international institutions to promote universal access to healthcare
- Promoting health protection based on solidarity and democracy
- Fostering exchange of best practices through discussions between our members
- Strengthening social innovation
- Promoting both the mutual model and the social and solidarity economy
We work in the following areas: public health, social policy, company law, international cooperation of mutuals
Some of our current activities focus on
- Working for the affordability and availability of medicines and medical devices
- Contributing to implementing the Directive on ‘patients’ rights in cross-border ‘healthcare’
- Exchanging best practices in the fields of long-term care, healthy ageing and prevention
- Lobbying on horizontal issues such as data protection and VAT
- Organising conferences on health issues
- Promoting our members’ interests in European and international negotiations on trade agreements (TTIP, CETA, etc.)
- Supporting mutuals through the adoption of mutual rules (European Mutual Statute, Mutual Codes in Africa and Middle East as well as Latin America)
- Supporting the structuring of mutual movements in the three AIM regions (Africa and Middle East, Europe, Latin America)
- Promoting mutuals as a vital means of providing social protection in Africa and Middle East, Europe and Latin America
- Acting as a stakeholder in the European Commission’s initiatives such as the European Network for Health Technology Assessment.