AFM-Téléthon

AFM-Telethon is a patients’ organisation fighting neuromuscular diseases, rare genetic disorders that kill muscle after muscle. Its primary goal : to conquer the disease.

The French Muscular Dystrophy Association (AFM-Telethon) is an association of activists, patients and parents of patients, affected by rare, progressive and significantly disabling genetic diseases, known as genetic neuromuscular diseases. It was created out of a conviction and a desire, to cure diseases that were long considered to be incurable. AFM-Telethon is also the Telethon, a fundraising event which brought rare diseases out of scientific and medical obscurity and triggered a three-fold revolution: genetic, social and medical.

Innovation in scientifical, medical, social and technological fields, AFM-Telethon is a pioneer in the research and support to improve patients’ lives. Three missions are at the heart of its action: Cure, Care, Communicate.

AFM-Telethon has long struggled to defend the rights of patients, of people living with disabilities, and to obtain recognition for rare diseases. As a driver of research and innovation, it defends an ambitious national policy.

Committed to scientific research as well as to the support of patients and their families, AFM-Telethon acts independently, guided only by the urgency of the progressive disease, for the benefit of patients.