It is an independent, non-profit professional association, open to anyone interested in the safety and proper use of medicines, and its purpose is to promote a scientific approach, education, and research in pharmacovigilance in all countries. It seeks to achieve these objectives through the following means: regularly exchanging relevant information in a network, in a friendly environment; providing collegiate and convivial support to anyone interested in pharmacovigilance; being an open and impartial forum for sharing knowledge, experiences, and solutions; constituting a platform for developing new ideas and research; organizing accessible meetings and training sessions at an affordable cost; supporting these means through a transparent, responsible, open, and universal governance structure, without distinction of ethnic origin, nationality, political affiliation, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or belief.