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Created in 1964 by clinical cardiologists and researchers Jean Lenègre and Pierre Soulié, the association has fought for more than 50 years against cardiovascular diseases by informing people, funding research, supporting people and raising awareness of first-aid techniques.

The AFDOC is an association which aims to forge and maintain ties with patients while informing them and helping them to live with their disease on a daily basis. It also promotes prevention and provides therapeutic education to patients.

The Alliance du Cœur is a French association for patients suffering from heart disease which has been working for 30 years to inform, support, defend and help prevent cardiovascular diseases.

AMOC provides moral and psychological support for cardiac patients and patients who have undergone heart surgery. AMOC works to prevent cardiovascular incidents.

The Association des Maladies Héréditaires du Rythme Cardiaque provides support and information on heart rhythm disorders to people with these conditions and their families.

The aim of the association is to improve the living conditions of children born with a heart defect, cardiomyopathy or any other problem linked to a congenital cardiac anomaly — whether or not they have undergone surgery — to provide moral and psychological support, to facilitate meetings between patients and/or their families and to publicize their rights and defend them before public services.

The association represents the 80,000 people fitted with defibrillators and 800,000 people fitted with pacemakers in France, who need to make their voices heard to defend their rights.

ASPIC’s mission is to provide moral support to patients and their families by listening to them and putting them in touch with other people suffering from heart disease, and raise awareness of the disease, its consequences and its constraints, in order to improve understanding for those who suffer from it.

AMCV’s mission is to strengthen patient prevention, defend their own interests and provide them with moral support and advice for administrative procedures.

The aim of the Au Cœur des Jumeaux association is to raise funds to install defibrillators in sports arenas so that they can be used by athletes as well as members of the public who visit these arenas.