Health as defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) is a state of complete physical mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

The provision of an adequate health care for the population globally continues to be a challenging task as disease, poverty and illiteracy keep affecting the human population in a seemingly non-ending vicious circle.

The efforts of health care providers and scientific researchers in their determination to control the apparently exponential rise of human morbidity and mortality continues unabeited and with renewed zeal.

Hence in this scenario, it is more evident that the provision of better medico-social care for the continuous well-being of the global population should be a multidisciplinary, multicultural, inter-continental and to some extend faith-based approach.

It was thus in the context of the above vision that the Afro-European Medical and Research Network was conceived and became a reality on the 17th May 2006 in Bern Switzerland.