World COPD Day is an annual event organized by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) to improve awareness and care of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) around the world. World COPD Day 2008 will take place on November 19.
On World COPD Day, events in dozens of countries worldwide involve patients, families, health care professionals, and public health officials in raising awareness of this disease and what can be done to combat it.
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