| MISSION |
 | We are an international scientific community that works interactively through a network aiming at reducing healthcare-associated infections. |
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| OBJECTIVES |
| To create a global network in order to join efforts to reduce healthcare-associated infections, their attributable mortality, bacterial resistance, length of hospital stay, and extra cost. |
| To standardize healthcare-associated infection surveillance definitions and methodology. | |
| To collaborate in the development, adaptation, promotion and edition of local guidelines for the control and prevention of healthcare-associated infections. | |
| To enhance safety and quality of health care in every healthcare facility. | |
| To optimize antimicrobial use for prophylaxis or treatment. | |
| To stimulate, support, guide and advise on the development of research projects aimed at reducing healthcare-associated infections. | |
| To train healthcare workers in order to improve their skills for scientific research. | |
| To foster relevant scientific evidence-based literature for the surveillance, prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections. | |
| To design and coordinate scientific research studies in order to analyze the clinical and cost effectiveness of proved or new infection control interventions. | |
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| VALUES |
| We consider heathcare-associated infections pose a global problem that requires the attention of the international scientific community. | |
| We consider infection control is feasible on the basis of evidence-based medicine, heeding regional diversity, educating and providing the medical community with enlightening information, providing tools eligible for systematic measurement, control and prevention. | |
| We consider healthcare safety and quality are inalienable rights of the patient and the patient’s environment that cannot be violated nor ignored. | |
| We consider extra costs attributable to extra length of hospital stay and consumption are avoidable, and therefore, public and hospital policies should assume responsibility for them. | |
| We trust the promotion of scientific research to find effective and legitimate answers. | |
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| VISION |
| A society with the minimum incidence of healthcare-associated infections, | A society that recognizes the legitimate right of a hospitalized patient to be delivered safe health care. A society in which the scientific and medical community works for the safeguard of good infection control and surveillance practices. |
