France

Demographics
There is still to these day no precise measure of the prevalence of ME/CFS in France. French researchers refer to prevalence numbers from other countries. Pr J.D. De Korwin refers to prevalence numbers varying between 0.2% and 2.6% of the general population. The number of 150 000 patients goes around but doesn't have any known source.

Asso SFC
To this day, there is only one association for ME/CFS patients in France, which is called Asso SFC. The association has around 200 members, and to this day supports/tolerates CBT and GET treatments. The association provides a newsletter, and has local support groups. They are linked to a "scientific council" of doctors from diverse disciplines, including neurologists, immunologists, psychologists and gastro-enterologists.

EM Action
EM Action is a french website that mostly reports about the international news and research about ME.

Both those organization sometimes work together, like for the 2017 ME/CFS international day where they released a joint press release.

Research
There is no current effort to research the disease or treatments for the disease by the French government. Most of the rare publications about the disease come from the scientific council of the association, the most notable being "Chronic fatigue syndrome: A new disorder?", which reports some of the international biomedical research, but endorses the UK [biopsychosocial] model of the disease, citing the PACE trial as a source. The paper also makes some bold claims without citing its sources, like that CFS "greatly improves or cures itself in 3 to 5 years in half the cases" and "psychological factors prevent the patients from recovering".

A small team of researchers from the faculty of medicine of Marseilles regularly publishes papers about the disease , the last one being "Association of biomarkers with health-related quality of life and history of stressors in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients."

We also note a range of publications from notorious ME "deniers", one of the most notorious ones being Pr. Catherbas, with his last publication named "What’s in a name? New and older labels for chronic fatigue" where he compares the disease to neurasthenia.

Medical guidelines
There are currently no guidelines by the government for ME/CFS, and the providing of financial or physical aid highly depends on whether the insurance provider "believes" in the existence of the disease or not.

Notable clinicians

 * [Pr. Jean-Dominique De Korwin]
 * [Pr. François Authier]
 * [Dr. Alaa Ghali]
 * [Dr. Grégoire Cozon]

Notable researchers

 * [Dr. Stéphane Delliaux]