Self-help societies of patients suffering from ankylosing spondylitis exist in the following countries*):
| Country/Region: | Australia/Queensland | Ireland |
| Australia/Victoria | Italy | |
| Austria | Japan | |
| Belgium/Flanders | Moldavia | |
| Belgium/Wallonia | Netherlands | |
| Brazil | Norway | |
| Bulgaria | Portugal | |
| Canada | Singapore | |
| Croatia | Slovenia | |
| Czechia | Spain | |
| Denmark | Sweden | |
| France | Switzerland | |
| Germany | Taiwan | |
| Great Britain | Turkey | |
| Hungary/Budapest | Ukraine/Solotonosha | |
| Iran | USA | |
| Contact for societies in preparation: | ||
| India | ||
| Russia | ||
| *) Please understand that we publish our eMail addresses with the @ symbol as graphic, in order to prevent address collecting machines to collect our addresses and to fill our mailboxes with all kinds of spam eMails. If you want to write to one of us: Copy the address into the address field of your email programm and replace the graphic by the @ symbol. Please make clear in the subject line that your eMail concerns ankylosing spondylitis or ASIF. | ||