Education

To facilitate exchange of information and data on infection control principles and practices through workshops, and publications.

To formulate recommendations, guidelines or standards by the consensus of working groups.

To educate all trainees and members of the health care professions on the importance and practice of good infection control measures both within medical institutions and in the community.

To foster research into patterns of established and emergent infections and their modes of transmission, and into new and improved measures designed to interrupt such transmissions.