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Resource Center for COPD Patients


  • Learn about COPD
    What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), what does it mean to have COPD, and who is at risk? The basics about this chronic lung disease.

  • Join ICC and ICC Members
    Who is involved with the ICC and how to connect with an ICC member organization in your area.

  • Living with COPD
    For COPD patients and their family members, practical advice and strategies for coping with the disease from day to day and staying active with COPD.

  • Read news about COPD
    The latest developments in COPD research, treatment, education, and advocacy.

  • Participate in World COPD Day
    How you can be a part of one of the world’s most important COPD awareness events, held each year on the third Wednesday in November.

  • Participate in ICC campaigns
    What the ICC is doing to fight COPD and help COPD patients, and how you can lend a hand.

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.