World COPD Day

World COPD Day is an annual awareness-raising event, held each November. It is organized by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD). The event is also supported by ICC and many ICC member organizations around the world participate, organizing educational and awareness-raising activities in their home countries.

	World COPD Day 2007 will take place on Wednesday, November 14. The theme of this year’s event will be “Breathless not Helpless!” Materials and activities will also have an additional focus on “How You Can Help Yourself If You Have COPD.”
	Materials & Resources
	ICC materials for World COPD Day, plus links to more materials and resources from other organizations.
	ICC Member Activities
	What our member organizations around the world are planning.
	How You Can Get Involved
	Join up with events that ICC member organizations in your area are hosting! Or: COPD Patients: Use World COPD Day materials and your own story to inform your family, friends, and others in your community about COPD. Health Care Professionals: Educate your patients with a display or handouts of World COPD Day materials. Educate yourself and your peers with a seminar on COPD. Patient Organizations: Plan your own World COPD Day event! Media: Create a COPD question and answer feature. Cover World COPD Day events in your area.

ICC Campaigns

Global Burden of COPD International Call to Action

The International COPD Coalition and other participants in the 2006 Global Burden of COPD Summit call on health care professionals, non-governmental organizations, and governments to address the growing burden of COPD and its rising mortality rate. Click here to download the Call to Action and list of endorsers.

World COPD Day

Materials & Resources

ICC Member Activities

How You Can Get Involved