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Member societies

Patient Support = society offers patient support

Argentina
Argentine Association of Osteology and Mineral Metabolism (AAOMM)
Patient SupportArgentine Society of Osteoporosis (SAO)
Ibero-American College of Rheumatology (CIAR)
IOF Latin America Regional Office (non-member)

Armenia
Armenian Osteoporosis Association

Australia
Patient SupportOsteoporosis Australia
Patient SupportThe Australian and New Zealand Bone & Mineral Society

Austria
Action for Healthy Bones
Austrian Menopause Society
Austrian Society for Bone and Mineral Research
Patient SupportNational Osteoporosis Patient Society Austria

Bahrain
Patient SupportBahrain Osteoporosis Society

Rep. of Belarus
Patient SupportBelarusian Public Association "Fight Osteoporosis Together"
Patient SupportWoman and Family

Belgium
Patient SupportBelgian Bone Club
Belgian Royal Society of Rheumatology
European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO)

Bolivia
Patient SupportBolivian Association of Osteology and Mineral Metabolism

Brazil
Patient SupportBrazilian Osteoporosis Patients Society (SOBRAPCO)
Brazilian Society for Clinical Densitometry (SBDens)
Brazilian Society of Osteoporosis (SOBRAO)
Patient SupportNational Federation of Osteoporosis Patients Associations (FENAPCO)

Bulgaria
Patient SupportAssociation 'Women without Osteoporosis'
Patient SupportBulgarian League for the Prevention of Osteoporosis (BLPO)
Bulgarian Medical Society of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthrosis
Patient SupportBulgarian Society for Clinical Densitometry
National Center of Public Health Protection (NCPHP) (non-member)

Canada
Patient SupportOsteoporosis Canada

Chile
Chilean Osteoporosis Foundation (FUNDOP)
Chilean Society of Osteology and Mineral Metabolism

China
China Health Promotion Foundation (CHPF)
Patient SupportOsteoporosis Committee of China Gerontological Society

Chinese Taipei
Patient SupportChinese Taiwan Osteoporosis Association

Colombia
Patient SupportAssociacion Colombiana de Osteologia y Metabolismo Mineral (ACOMM)
Colombian Association of Endocrinology (ACE)
Patient SupportColombian Osteoporosis Foundation

Democratic Republic of Congo
Congolese Osteoporosis Society

Costa Rica
Patient SupportCostarican Association of Climacteric and Menopause and Osteoporosis(ACCMYO)
Patient SupportCostarican Osteoporosis Foundation

Croatia
Patient SupportCroatian League Against Rheumatism
Patient SupportCroatian Osteoporosis Society

Cuba
Patient SupportCuban Society of Rheumatology (SCUR)

Cyprus
Cyprus Society Against Osteoporosis and Myoskeletal Diseases
Cyprus Society for Osteoporosis

Czech Republic
Czech Osteoporosis League
Patient SupportCzech Society for Metabolic Bone Diseases (SMOS)
Patient SupportOsteologic Academy Zlin

Denmark
Danish Bone Society
Patient SupportNational Osteoporosis Foundation Denmark

Dominican Republic
Patient SupportDominican Menopause and Osteoporosis Society (SODOMOS)
Patient SupportDominican Osteoporosis, Menopause and Metabolic Disease Foundation (FUNDEMOS)
Dominican Society for Climacteric and Menopause Study

Egypt
Patient SupportEgyptian Osteoporosis Prevention Society

Equador
Ecuadorian Society of Mineral Metabolism (SECUAMEM)

Estonia
Patient SupportEstonian Osteoporosis Society

Finland
Patient SupportFinnish Bone Society
Patient SupportFinnish Osteoporosis Association

France
Patient SupportResearch and Information Group on Osteoporosis (GRIO)
Patient SupportAssociation des Femmes contre l'Ostéoporose (AFCOP)
Patient SupportFrench Society for Clinical Densitometry (SOFOC)
French Society of Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgery (SOFCOT)
Patient SupportWomen for ever

Georgia
Patient SupportNational Association of Osteoporosis

Germany
Patient SupportDeutsche Gesellschaft für Osteologie
German Academy of the Osteological and Rheumatological Sciences
Patient SupportGerman Osteoporosis Patient Society (BfO)
Patient SupportGerman Society for Endocrinology
Patient SupportKuratorium Knochengesundheit /Committee for Healthy Bones
National Initiative Against Osteoporosis (non-member)
Patient SupportOrthopaedische Gesellschaft fuer Osteologie e.V.
Patient SupportUmbrella Organisation of German Speaking Osteoporosis Patient Societies
Umbrella Organisation of German Speaking Scientific Societies of Osteology

Greece
Hellenic Endocrine Society-Panhellenic Association of Endocrinologists
Hellenic Foundation of Osteoporosis (HELIOS)
Hellenic Society for the Study of Bone Metabolism
Patient SupportHellenic Society of Osteoporosis Patients Support

Guatemala
Guatemalan League Against Osteoporosis

Hong Kong
Asian Pacific Osteoporosis Foundation
Patient SupportChina Osteoporosis Foundation (COF)
Hong Kong Osteoporosis Foundation
Osteoporosis Society of Hong Kong (OSHK)

Hungary
Patient SupportHungarian Osteoporosis Patients Association
Patient SupportHungarian Society for Osteoporosis and Osteoarthrology

Iceland
Patient SupportBeinvernd – The Icelandic Osteoporosis Foundation

India
Patient SupportArthritis Foundation of India Trust (AFI)
Indian Rheumatology Association
Indian Society for Bone and Mineral Research
Patient SupportOsteoporosis Society of India

Indonesia
Patient SupportIndonesian Healthy Bone Foundation (PERWATUSI)
Patient SupportIndonesian Osteoporosis Society (PEROSI)

Iran
Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center

Iraq
Iraqi Osteoporosis Prevention Society

Ireland
Patient SupportIrish Osteoporosis Society

Israel
Israel Society on Calcified Tissues Research
Patient SupportThe Israeli Foundation for Osteoporosis and Bone Diseases

Italy
European Women - Housewives Federation
Fondazione Raffaella Becagli (F.I.R.M.O.) (non-member)
International Society for Fracture Repair (ISFR)
Patient SupportItalian Association of Osteoporosis Patients (AIPOS)
Patient SupportItalian Foundation for Research on Osteoporosis and Musculoskeletal Diseases (FIROMMS)
Patient SupportItalian Osteoporosis League (LIOS)
Patient SupportItalian Society of Rheumatology (SIR)
Patient SupportMediterranean Society For Osteoporosis and Other Skeletal Diseases (MSOSD)
Osteoporosis Italian Association (Osteo-Stop) Onlus
Patient SupportSocieta Italiana Osteoporosi e Malattie Metabolismo Minerale e Scheletrico (SIOMMMS)

Jamaica
Jamaica Osteoporosis Society

Japan
Patient SupportJapan Osteoporosis Foundation
Japan Osteoporosis Society (JOS)
Japanese Society for Bone and Mineral Research

Jordan
Patient SupportJordanian Osteoporosis Prevention Society (JOPS)

Kenya
Patient SupportOsteoporosis Prevention and Age Concern

Republic of Korea
Korean Society of Bone Metabolism
Patient SupportKorean Society of Osteoporosis

Kuwait
Patient SupportKuwait Osteoporosis Prevention Society

Latvia
Latvia Osteoporosis Patient and Invalid Association
Latvian Osteoporosis and Bone Metabolic Diseases Association

Lebanon
Patient SupportLebanese Osteoporosis Prevention Society
Lebanese Society of Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disorders (OSTEOS)
Lebanese Society of Rheumatology

Libya
Patient SupportLibyan Osteoporosis Society

Lithuania
Patient SupportAssociation of Skeletal Metabolism Diseases incorporated in Lithuanian Endocrine Society
Patient SupportLithuanian Osteoporosis Foundation

Luxembourg
Association Luxembourgeoise d'Etude du Metabolisme Osseux et de l'Osteoporose (ALEMO)

Republic of Macedonia
Patient SupportMacedonian Osteoporosis Association (MOA)

Malaysia
Malaysian Osteoporosis Society
Osteoporosis Awareness Society of Kuala Lumpur

Malta
Patient SupportMalta Osteoporosis Society

Mexico
Patient SupportAsociacion Contra La Osteoporosis, S.C.
Mexican Associaton of Bone and Mineral Metabolism (AMMOM)
Patient SupportMexican Committee for the Prevention of Osteoporosis (COMOP)

Republic of Moldova
Patient SupportAssociation of Prophylaxis of Osteoporosis from Moldova

Morocco
Moroccan Society for Rheumatology

The Netherlands
Patient SupportDutch Osteoporosis Foundation

New Zealand
Osteoporosis New Zealand Inc
Patient SupportThe Australian and New Zealand Bone & Mineral Society

Norway
Patient SupportNorwegian Osteoporosis Society

Pakistan
Patient SupportGujranwala Osteoporosis Patient Society
Patient SupportOsteoporosis Society of Pakistan

Palestine
Patient SupportPalestinian Osteoporosis Prevention Society (POPS)

Panama
Osteoporosis and Bone Metabolic Disease Foundation (FOSEMO)

Peru
Patient SupportPeruvian Societiy of Osteoporosis and Bone Diseases - SPOEO
Sociedad Peruana de Reumatologia

Philippines
Patient SupportOsteoporosis Society of the Philippines Foundation Inc.

Poland
Healthy Bone Enthusiasts Society (STENKO)
Patient SupportMultidisciplinary Osteoporotic Forum
Polish Foundation of Osteoporosis
Polish Osteoarthrology Society

Portugal
Patient SupportNational Association Against Osteoporosis (APOROS)
Patient SupportPortugese Society of Osteoporosis and Other Metabolic Bone Diseases (SPODOM)
Patient SupportPortuguese Osteoporosis Association (APO)

Puerto Rico
Patient SupportPuerto Rican Society of Endocrinology and Diabetology (SPED)

Romania
Patient SupportAssociation for Prevention of Osteoporosis in Romania (ASPOR)
Patient SupportRomanian Foundation of Osteoarthrology (OsART)
Romanian Society of Osteoporosis and Musculoskeletal Diseases
Romanian Society of Rheumatology

Russia
Patient SupportRussian Association on Osteoporosis
Patient SupportRussian Patient Society "Towards a life without osteoporosis and fractures"

Serbia
Patient SupportSerbia Osteoporosis Society

Singapore
Endocrine and Metabolic Society of Singapore (EMSS)
Patient SupportOsteoporosis Society (Singapore)

Slovak Republic
Slovak Society for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Diseases (SOMOK)
Patient SupportSlovak Union against Osteoporosis

Slovenia
Patient SupportSlovene Bone Society
Patient SupportSlovene Osteoporosis Patient Society

South Africa
Patient SupportNational Osteoporosis Foundation

Spain
Patient SupportHispanic Foundation of Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Diseases (FHOEMO)
Ibero American Society of Osteology and Mineral Metabolism (SIBOMM)
Spanish Association Against Osteoporosis (AECOS)
Spanish Society for Research on Bone and Mineral Metabolism (SEIOMM)
Spanish Society for Rheumatology
Spanish Society of Osteoporotic Fractures (SEFRAOS)

Sri Lanka
Osteoporosis Sri Lanka

Sweden
Patient SupportRiksföreningen Osteoporotiker – ROP
Patient SupportSwedish Osteoporosis Society
Patient SupportThe Swedish Rheumatism Association

Switzerland
Patient SupportOsteoSwiss (ex donna mobile)
Patient SupportSwiss Association against Osteoporosis

Syria
Pan Arab Osteoporosis Society
Patient SupportSyrian National Osteoporosis Society (SYNOS)

Thailand
Patient SupportThai Osteoporosis Foundation

Tunisia
Patient SupportTunisian Osteoporsis Prevention Society

Turkey
Patient SupportOsteoporosis Patient Society of Turkey
Rheumatism Society
Patient SupportThe Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Turkey (SEMT)
Patient SupportThe Society of Life with Osteoporosis
Patient SupportTurkish Joint Diseases Foundation
Patient SupportTurkish Osteoporosis Society

Ukraine
Patient SupportUkrainian Association on Osteoporosis

United Arab Emirates
Emirates Osteoporosis Society

United Kingdom
Bone Research Society
European Calcified Tissue Society
Patient SupportNational Osteoporosis Society (NOS)

Uruguay
Patient SupportUruguayan Society of Osteoporosis and Mineral Metabolism (SUOMM)
Patient SupportUruguayan Society of Rheumatology (SUR)

USA
Patient SupportNational Osteoporosis Foundation
International Society for Clinical Densitometry

Venezuela
Patient SupportVenezuelan Menopause and Osteoporosis Foundation (FUVEMO)
Patient SupportVenezuelan Society of Menopause and Osteoporosis (SOVEMO)

Vietnam
Patient SupportVietnam Rheumatology Association
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