The “AHC Vereniging Nederland” is the Dutch AHC Patients Association, a non-profit organization offering support for affected children and their families.

 
AHC is short for Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood. Plegia refers to forms of paralysis of the body and or limbs, Hemi adds the scale of half the entire body to it and Alternating indicates that the forms of paralysis may change from one side of the body to the other. Childhood means that the disease is most often diagnosed during childhood, but it may well extend to adult patients.
 
Our main goals are to:

• Provide information about AHC in the Netherlands;
• Provide support to the children and their families especially in the early moments;
• Look after interests of people with AHC and their families;
• Promote the study into the cause of AHC;
• Promote the study into an effective medical treatment for AHC.