World COPD Day

World COPD Day 2009 will take place on Wednesday, November 18. The theme of this year’s event will be “Breathless not Helpless!” For more information about WCD activities around the world and to download WCD materials and resources, please visit the World COPD Day Internet Headquarters on the GOLD Website.

For World COPD Day 2009 the ICC will be focusing on the COPD Patients’ Bill of Rights that was developed at the First World Conference of COPD Patients in July. Will your organization endorse the Bill of Rights on World COPD Day? If so, please email ICC Executive Director Dr. Larry Grouse with your organization name, contact person and email, and Website address. We’ll post your organization name and a link to your site along with other Bill of Rights supporters.

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.