At a meeting of the Trustees in February 2019, the application from Action Contre les spondylarthrites (ACS), a second association in France.
ACS was founded in 1987 and has 3,500 members. They organise many activities and publications and work at raising awareness.
ACS organise the Journée Nationale de Spondyloarthrites or National Sponyloarthritis Day. This year it will be in Paris on 23 March.
ACS are keen to expand on work already started working with other french-speaking countries to share publications, booklets and videos.
ASIF looks forward to working with ACS.