World Asthma Day 2023: The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) is a partnership of the World Health Organization. It was founded in 1993. World Asthma Day is organized by GINA to spread awareness about Asthma globally.
Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease that prevents patients from breathing normally. This event is organized annually by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) to raise awareness about chronic asthma, prevention measures, prevention and care worldwide. Nowadays, this disease is still common in children.
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World Asthma Day 2023: Theme
Because the majority of asthma-related illnesses and deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) has chosen “Asthma Care for All” as the theme for World Asthma Day 2023.
The theme for World Asthma Day 2022 is “Bridging the gap in asthma care”.
The theme of World Asthma Day 2020 is “Enough deaths from asthma”.
The theme of World Asthma Day 2019 is “STOP for Asthma”. Here the topics covered are assessing symptoms, testing responses, observing, evaluating, and making adjustments to treatment. The Global Health Initiative (GINA) organizes testing camps worldwide to diagnose and treat asthma. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) even organizes medical camps, examines and provides free medicine for asthma patients.
World Asthma Day: History
In 1998, the first World Asthma Day was celebrated in more than 35 countries in conjunction with the first World Asthma Conference in Barcelona, Spain. As participation numbers have grown, the day has become the most important asthma awareness and education event in the world. It aims to educate people on how to best manage this respiratory problem and other allergies.
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How is World Asthma Day celebrated?
This year, World Asthma Day is celebrated on May 3 and May is observed as Asthma Awareness Month. To encourage people to take care of their asthma, the “National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP)” is organized. People living with asthma are encouraged to write an Asthma Action Plan (AAP) of the medications and facilities they would like for their asthma care.
NAEPP’s biggest advance is the APP made to bring together doctors, patients, and others who care for asthma patients to work together to gain control of asthma.
Some activities performed:
- To initiate the best treatment for asthma, free asthma testing camps have been organized.
- In areas where it is necessary, new asthma clinics and pharmacies have been opened.
- In some countries, the Asthma Society celebrates World Asthma Day at the national level.
- Through television channels and news channels, many awareness messages are spread such as “fighting asthma with every breath”.
- Some schools offer classes to spread awareness about asthma, its symptoms, precautions, and prevention.
- To raise awareness about asthma, asthma posters and banners were distributed in many areas.
The WHO Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development both address asthma. WHO’s efforts to prevent and control chronic respiratory diseases are supported by the Global Alliance to Fight Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD). GARD is a voluntary alliance of national and international organizations and agencies from many countries dedicated to the ideal of a society in which everyone has access to clean air. Controlling the disease as well as preventing asthma largely depends on reducing exposure to tobacco smoke. Progress in this area is possible through the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and WHO programs such as MPOWER and mTobacco Cai.
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