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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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On World COPD Day 2007, 112 activities took place in 36 countries--the biggest World COPD Day ever!

Hundreds of participants around the world helped convey the Breathless not Helpless! theme and spread the message of "How You Can Help Yourself If You Have COPD."

Click here to view a slideshow of WCD activities.

Meet the Participants! Click here to read interviews with WCD 2007 participants.

Read more about WCD events around the world.

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Mark your calendar
World COPD Day takes place each year on the second or third Wednesday in November.

WCD 2008: November 19

WCD 2009: November 18


Information for COPD Patients
GOLD resources to help you learn about COPD, its treatment, and living with the disease.

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