About Us

General Goals

• Promoting excellence in prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.
• Raising awareness in the community about the most relevant features of infectious diseases.
• Encouraging and supporting basic and applied research to better understand the causes, treatment, and prevention of infectious diseases.
• Collaborating with public and private organizations to develop prevention programs.
  
• Transmitting our expertise and know-how in infectious disease prevention, diagnostics, and treatment.

Our Team

FIDEC professionals form working groups focused on specific branches of infectious diseases, such as infant, teenage, and adult vaccination (against the flu or influenza, pneumococcal pneumonia, hepatitis, shingles and herpes zoster, human papilloma virus or HPV, and polio, among others); nutrition, hygiene and food safety; bone and joint infections; and travel medicine. Every group's efforts rest on four founding pillars:

• education for healthcare professionals,
  
• education for the community,
  
• research,
  
• healthcare programs.

FIDEC in Emerging Countries

Argentina and Uruguay

FIDEC was born as a natural outgrowth of Fundación Centro de Estudios Infectológicos (FUNCEI). This organization was created in 1987 by Doctor Daniel Stamboulian and is headquartered in the City of Buenos Aires. Today, FIDEC not only extends the work started by FUNCEI to other countries with specific needs in the field of infectious diseases, but also actively supports the actions of FUNCEI in Argentina.

In recognition of the brilliant career of the founder and chair of these organizations, Fundación Stamboulian was established in Buenos Aires and has been another pillar of these fruitful endeavors.

In Uruguay, FIDEC is also represented by FUNCEI, which is registered as a legal entity in the Bureau of Legal Entities by decree of the Education and Culture Ministry of that country.

Armenia

Since its inception, FIDEC runs healthcare and educational programs in Armenia. As this work had been growing and expanding into several regions of the country, in 2008, FIDEC decided to establish a local branch —FIDEC Armenia— with its own working groups and an office in downtown Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.