Membership & Newsletter Fees
If you would still like to receive the newsletter in French, please
read our membership rules in the above-mentioned page. Our membership fees are
as follows: regular member (15 euros only payable through international transfer
– normally free of cost within
Europe check with your bank).
If you are interested in becoming our contact person or create a
Keratos section in a specific country (particularly in Europe), collect
information for us, exchange experiences, participate in advocacy related work
and updating limited sections of the website relevant to the said country, we
may agree to send you the newsletter for free in French (and possibly the
English one later on). The same confidentiality conditions apply.
If you are interested in an English version of this newsletter,
please let us know as we may consider it, as long as we have enough
international members to justify this extra work. Keratos is considering a
specific (and most likely reduced) membership fee for such foreign members. The
same rules regarding confidentiality of the newsletter will apply to those
members.
Foreign members may vote using internet regarding decision relevant
for Keratos general activities and policies. Some votes on specifically French
policies issues may be excluded from this rule.
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Memberships fund our advocacy and research related expenses only,
as we currently don’t receive any money for any other institution. While we may
accept public and private funding later on, Keratos does not employ anyone – all
“working” personnel is currently volunteer - and the
money is exclusively used for our nonprofit activity. However, we
will never accept any money coming from pharmaceutical companies, similar
institutions and by reselling goods pertaining to this OSD field to preserve our
total independence and credibility. If you work or are financially
interested in such pharmaceutical-related activity, please consider that you
cannot be a regular member of Keratos nor represent Keratos inside or
outside of France. While doctors and other researchers involved in
pharmaceutical research may take part in the activities of Keratos, in an
ethical committee for instance, they cannot be full members of our
association nor represent our views outside of the role defined for them.
That role is essentially an informative and guiding one for the members of
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The IDEA Project &
European Expansion of Keratos and other patient support groups.
If you'd like to set up a support group or even
create a Keratos section in your country (other than France, Portugal & Norway),
please contact us as we may offer some help. Regarding the mentioned countries,
we suggest taht you join the already deployed efforts in those countries to
create an active network as effeicient as possible.
If there is not such group or national
association on lacrhymal dysfunction and ocular surface pathologies, perharps we
can help you (except fianncially) notably by providing you Internet space (for a
few webpages), listing your contacts on our different sites, by excahnging
information, supporting your advocacy actions, by inclduign you in
collective actions with other members of other countries for isntance. We may
also help you by making campaign kits and joint actions addressing the medias
and authorities.
You may
choose from the following options:
You'd like to create your own
association - Keratos will help you as much (notably with the
above-mentioned means), however there may a few requirements for your
help: your association must be a non-profit one, idnependant from labs,
and must defend the interest of several types of "dry eye" (lacrhymal
dysfunctions) not just one, or several ocualr surface pathologies (not
just one). For instance, it could be a support group for different types
of dry eyes, or a group on LASIK and other iatrogenic dry eye). More
generally, you must support the goal that research must benefit all type
of lachrymal dysfunctions and OSDs. You will be responsible for the
content you want to post on the website (you may submit it to us in a
simple text file and we'll do the rest), but we may refuse to post an
article that we deemed not appropriate or counter-productive for our
respectives actions.
You want to create your Keratos
delegation in Europe or simply become a contact person for Keratos in
another country - Keratos will help with the above mentioned proposals
but also by maintaining a national webpage for you country on our site
or providing you relevant research information.
You
don't feel capable of creating or maintaining such a group alone, but
you would like either to participate punctually in our activities or
just post a webpage on our website to incite others in your country or
region to join your efforts.
You feel
like translating one of our pages in your country or local language and
post it here or elsewhere. .
For any of these 4 cases please
Contact Keratos here
You are totally independent, you
already work on a specific pathology ou other non-ocular issues, but you
wish to participate in a joint action with us in favour of all lacrhymal
dysfunctions and/or several ocular surface diseases, in an advocacy work
in favour of the disabled or some other general partnership, or simply
exhcange internet addresses in our respective website contacts and
links,
please contact us here.
For any other issues please
Contact Keratos
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