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Working for patients, and for research
AIL (Associazione Italiana contro le leucemie-linfomi e mieloma) is an Italian ‘ONLUS’ (socially active non-profit organisation) set up in Rome on 8 April 1969. It received official recognition by a Presidential Decree on 19 September 1975 (no. 481).
AIL’s basic role on a national level (through its 80 provincial sections) is to provide aid to patients through a symbiotic relationship established with the main university and hospital hematology units and departments in Italy.
Patients are the focus of the association’s activities. We aim to improve quality of life and provide direct assistance to patients in their struggle against blood diseases.
Mission
Awareness campaigns highlighting the struggle against blood diseases and directed at the general public.
Improving the quality of life of patients and their families and providing direct assistance to patients in their struggle against blood diseases.
Promoting and supporting research.
The importance of this association, which acts on behalf of patients and of all engaged in the struggle against blood diseases, derives from its two-level organisational structure (national and provincial).

Nationally, AIL works toward visibility via the main media, but also through its work with leading institutions, and through nationwide actions. Its awareness campaigns have been most successful in sensitising public opinion to the importance of the struggle against blood diseases.

Locally, AIL’s busy network of provincial sections and its close relations with hospitals, universities and local authorities make AIL a vitally important point of reference for patients and their families.

Also through the efforts of AIL, Italian hematology centres provide high quality services comparable with the best to be found worldwide. Furthermore, scientific research has made astounding progress.

Through contributions from the many Italians who felt that they should aid us – or who will do so in the future –, AIL has done much in the struggle against leukemia, lymphomas and myeloma. Over the last twenty years, thanks to breakthroughs on the research front and increasingly effective treatment (including stem cell transplants), leukemia, lymphomas and myeloma conditions have become diseases which can be cured more and more frequently. However, this is not enough. We must consider not only the recovery rates but also the quality and expectations of life of patients.
   
 
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