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'''AIM, the International Association of Mutual Benefit Societies''' '''(Association Internationale de la Mutualité)''' represents [[health]] mutual benefit societies (mutuals) and [[health insurance]] funds in [[Europe]] and worldwide.<ref>{{Cite web|title=AIM: About AIM |url=http://www.aim-mutual.org/about-aim/ |website=www.aim-mutual.org |accessdate=11 December 2015 |
Through its 61 members from 27 countries, health coverage is provided to over 200 million people in the [[world]] and to 160 million in [[Europe]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Association internationale de la mutualité (AIM)|url = http://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/association-internationale-de-la-mutualite-aim-_fr_art_223_31113.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120606125908/http://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/association-internationale-de-la-mutualite-aim-_fr_art_223_31113.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 6 June 2012|website = www.alternatives-economiques.fr|accessdate = 11 December 2015}}</ref> Its members manage compulsory and/or voluntary health insurance and some deliver [[Health care|healthcare]] and social services through their own facilities.<ref>Archambault, Edith, Mutual organizations, mutual soci
eties, in: International Encyclopedia of Civil Society,
Anheier H. and Toepler S. (Ed.), 2009.</ref>
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== AIM's history ==
AIM was founded in January 1950 at the General Assembly in [[Paris]] under the French legal form of Association. By that time, the Association had its headquarters in [[Geneva]].
Its official statutory name "Association Internationale de la Mutualité" therefore dates back to 1950. Its headquarters were transferred from [[Geneva]] to Brussels in 1998.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}
In 2008 AIM changed legal status: it went from an Association under French law to an Association with non-profit orientation under Belgian Law (ASBL).
The objective of the association in 1950 was–and still is–to defend mutuals’ interests. Among its members are (umbrella organisations of) healthcare mutual, but also other not-for-profit providers of healthcare coverage and national health funds.
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== AIM's Missions as International Association ==
AIM works with European and international institutions to promote universal access to healthcare and health protection based on solidarity and [[democracy]] according to the principles of its members. It is also a platform for exchange of best practises within its members. AIM defends the specificity of the mutual model of social and solidarity economy and encourages social innovation. It is a member of Social Economy Europe.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Social Economy Europe|url = http://www.socialeconomy.eu.org/spip.php?rubrique217|website = www.socialeconomy.eu.org|accessdate = 11 December 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151222113524/http://www.socialeconomy.eu.org/spip.php?rubrique217|archive-date = 22 December 2015|url-status = dead}}</ref>
AIM members share the mutual values of solidarity and democracy and the principle of not-for-profit orientation<ref>European Commission (2012). Study on the current situation
and prospects of mutuals in Europe . Panteia. Brussels {{cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/files/mutuals/prospects_mutuals_fin_en.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-01-23 |
* Solidarity: AIM members protect their own members without any [[discrimination]] on grounds of age or state of health.<ref>European Commission, Consultation document: Mutual Societies in an enlarged Europe, 3 October 2003</ref>
* Democracy: our members involve their own members in deciding upon services, setting subscriptions and in the governance of their mutuals.
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AIM works on several subjects: health, insurance, social economy, [[preventive healthcare|disease prevention]], [[education]], healthy ageing, pension and fraud in healthcare. To cover all the topics, 12 working groups gather national experts to discuss the issues relevant for its members.
The Working Groups are the
*European Affairs
*Health Systems Reform
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