The Neuros du Monde NGO was created on 15 January 2001. It followed its forerunner ANLLF ( Association of French Speaking Independant Neurologists) by inviting Hospital Neurologists and Neurosurgeon into its fold. The Association is primarily interested in French-speaking countries which already have one or more Neurologists and Nurosurgeons qualified in Africa, Asia and in South America.

To equip hospitals in developing countries with electrophysiological equipment (EEG, EMG, ...) Doppler or Scanner

To offer a complementary training for the utilisation of this equipment

To supply medicines for the treatment of neurological diseases

To provide training for urgent neurosurgery to general surgeons in collaboration with the local neurosurgeons and to help them to acquire the basic equipment

To train the relevant engineers for the upkeep of these apparatus

To stimulate friendship and mutual aid between the Northern and Southern hemisphere neurological and neurosurgicals communities

To help implement research programs on neurological diseases in tropical environment.

The Association in financed by subsrciptions of its numbers and by pharmaceutical industry sponsors. For specific projects, a request for subsidy can de addressed to the Ministry of Cooperation and to the European Union Authorities.

In the past eight years a certain number of actions ( see attached list of projects ) have already been led by the French Neurology body and were covered by the local press. A program of actions is worked out every year and discussed with Hospital Authorities, even local governmental authorities and, if neen be, in collaboration with ’ Institute of Tropical Neurology ’ in Limoges.