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Supporting patients and their families

Background

As a global healthcare leader focused on patients’ needs, Sanofi believes our mission goes beyond making medicines available. With our collaborators, we endeavor to act to protect health, enhance life and respond to healthcare needs. One of the ways the Group translates this commitment into reality is by collaborating with patient associations all over the world on mutual priorities that benefit patients. We are committed to listen and foster a dialogue to learn and to enhance our understanding of patients’ expectations, to strive to:

• Find better healthcare solutions for patients
• Take into account and respond to the broader needs of patients and their families/loved ones throughout the patient’s journey

Working with patient associations

Patient associations have many roles: They help people by providing information about conditions and raise awareness about screening and prevention. They may also provide their members with a platform to meet with each other and share their experience and provide ongoing support for patients, relatives and friends during illness. Patient associations deliver benefits to the patient communities they represent, by enabling them to shape the current and future healthcare environment by making their collective voices heard, including by making public authorities aware of the importance of access to the most appropriate treatments.

The relationship between Sanofi and patient associations is guided by a spirit of collaboration, while respecting the independence of the association. This type of collaboration represents an opportunity for the Group, for the associations and, most of all, for patients by:

• Facilitating exchange of know-how
• Helping to make it possible to provide effective support to the patient and, on a larger scale, to the community, which may take different forms: support groups, hotlines, information centers, websites, educational programs, etc., all of which may improve the quality of life for patients
• Helping to enable patient associations to have a voice in current and future healthcare policy

Sanofi supports patient associations devoted to a number of different diseases in over 60 countries. The Group also collaborates with international and regional associations operating in 160 countries.

For more information:

• List of patient associations

The Group’s support primarily involves associations that are active in conditions about which the Group has expertise, or is in the process of developing expertise. In parallel, the Group supports associations that, rather than focusing on a specific condition, strive to respond to the broad needs of patients.