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Individual member / Affiliated Society

Why become an individual
member of the IAS?
Membership will build a strong IAS in
solidarity with people and countries
affected by HIV/AIDS. By being a member, you will help the IAS to widen and
develop its activities according to the
IAS Purposes.
A person can be a member of the IAS
directly as an individual or through an
affiliated society. Persons professionally
engaged in activities related to
HIV/AIDS may apply for membership.
Please use the Application Form included. The membership term is from
July 1 - June 30.
(Bylaws can be obtained from the
Secretariat or through the IAS Web Page).
Member Benefits
As a member, you will receive the IAS
Newsletter three times a year, consisting
of carefully selected articles by leading
professionals within the scientific community and current information, debate, forthcoming events and updates to
members.
As a member, you will be able to subscribe to the IAS official journal, AIDS
at a 15% discount. For members from a
developing country (according to official listings as supplied by AIDS), a 50%
discount is given.
As a member, you will receive a Personal
Identification Number (PIN) enabling
you to access the IAS Membership
Directory and Membership Section with
various updates and information on the
IAS Web Page. The IAS has more than
10,000 members (individual and affiliated) from more than 132 countries.
How to become a member
Use the application form attached to
this brochure. Payment can be made by
Credit Card or a Bankers Draft drawn
on an American Bank (personal cheques
cannot be cashed).
The membership term is from JulyJune. The annual membership fee is
US$ 30 per year.

Affiliation
IAS is a Federation of AIDS Societies.
All national or regional societies that
are eligible for affiliation may send their
application (as specified in paragraph
5.2 of the IAS Bylaws) to the Secretariat:
Article 5. Membership and Affiliation
5.1 The Federation consists of affiliated
societies and of individual members. A person can be a member of
IAS either directly as an individual
or through an affiliated national or
regional society.
5.2 National or regional societies,
having stated purposes and membership similar to those of the IAS
(Article 4 and 5) can apply for affiliation to the Federation. Affiliate status for national or regional societies
requires approval by a majority of
the Governing Council quorum.
The affiliated status can be withdrawn for cause by a majority of the
Governing Council quorum.
All applications for affiliate membership must include the list of
members of the society in order to
be considered. Evidence of organisation and activity of the society
should be supplied by the society
applying for affiliation with IAS.
A member society may resign at any
time by filing its resignation with
the President and the SecretaryGeneral but such resignation shall
not exempt it from payment of dues
for the year of membership.
AFFILIATEDTOTHE INTERNATIONAL AIDS SOCIETY
IAS
INTERNATIONAL
FEDERATION OF
SOCIETIES
This will build a strong IAS, which can
contribute to controlling the pandemic
and coping with the individual and
societal consequences.

The IAS has a budget turnover around
US$ 500,000 (Conference budgets and
Share budgets excluded) and endeayours to keep the costs down with a very
small staff. Income is derived from
annual membership fees (currently US$
30 per year), the undesignated funds
from a group of Preferred Sponsors and
some funds generated from the biennial
International AIDS Conferences. This
income is used for:. maintenance of a continuous involvement (e.g. selection of host venues,
fund-raising and planning) with
upcoming and future International
AIDS Conferences (including prefinancing of these events),
* support of regional and other conferences,
* development of SHARE: The IAS
Educational Program on HIV Clinical
Care and Prevention,
* other activities of the Secretariat,
* production of the IAS Newsletters,
* maintenance of the membership register, Web Page and database,. provision of information to individual
members and affiliated Societies,
* development of short- and long-term
initiatives,
* liaison with other international organisations.
The current cost for affiliation is related
to the size of the national or regional
society.
Society with up to 200 members
Annual fee of US$ 100
Society with 200-500 members
Annual fee of US$ 200
Society with more than 500 members
Annual fee of US$ 300
The affiliation to the IAS will give the
society the right to include "Affiliated to
the International AIDS Society" on their
letterhead and official documents. For
this purpose, a separate logo will be
sent to those affiliated to the IAS.