[3] Its members manage compulsory and/or voluntary health insurance and some deliver healthcare and social services through their own facilities.
[4] As an international association, AIM is present in Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.
AIM was founded in January 1950 at the General Assembly in Paris under the French legal form of Association.
[6] AIM members share the mutual values of solidarity and democracy and the principle of not-for-profit orientation[7] AIM works on several subjects: health, insurance, social economy, 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.