Located in Antwerp, Belgium, ITM also delivers outpatient, clinical and preventive services in tropical pathologies and sexually transmitted diseases.

ITM has a strong reputation in biomedical, clinical and public health research, advanced education, travel medicine and care for HIV and sexually-transmitted diseases as well as capacity-building in developing countries.

Peter Piot and his colleagues at the institute were the first to demonstrate that AIDS was a tropical African disease.

ITM also is a national and international reference centre for a series of diseases and pathogens (such as the Ebola virus).

[citation needed] ITM also carries out an extensive capacity strengthening program in developing countries, and is part of a large network of institutions in Africa, South America and Asia.