Working to Reduce Asthma
Forum of International Respiratory Societies Calls for Immediate Action to Prevent Childhood Pneumonia on World Pneumonia Day 2025 For Immediate Release 12thNovember 2025 Despite significant progress in recent years, pneumonia remains a leading cause of child mortality, claiming hundreds of thousands of young lives every year. On World Pneumonia Day 12th November 2025, the Forum …
The Forum of International Respiratory Societies Marks World Lung Day with Global Lung Health Campaigns and Practical Tips for Everyone This World Lung Day, 25 September 2025, the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) is urging people everywhere to protect their lung health every day. Under the theme Healthy Lungs, Healthy Life, FIRS is highlighting …
International Respiratory experts Use World Lung Cancer Day to Stress the Importance of Lung Cancer Screening and Risk Factor Awareness GLENVIEW, Ill. – Globally, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide for both men and women. In 2020, there were 2.5 million new lung cancer cases globally and 1.80 million deaths. In support …
International Respiratory Societies Unite on World Bronchiectasis Day 2025 to Urge Global Awareness and Collaboration This Rare Lung Disease is Increasing; Members of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies Unite to Improve Early Detection JULY 1, 2025 – According to the 2022 Global Impact of Respiratory Disease Report, the global presence of non–cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis …
Click to read the tribute to Professor Eric Donn Bateman AM, MB BS, PhD, FRACP, from The Lancet.
The new GINA 2025 Slide Set is now available to download HERE. The PowerPoint slide set summarizes GINA’s objectives, documents, and management recommendations from the 2025 update of the GINA Strategy Report, with background information about asthma and the burden of this disease. *A minor error on slide 49 was corrected on June 3, 2025.
The 78th World Health Assembly closed on May 27, 2025, with the formal adoption of a landmark resolution on lung health “Promoting and prioritizing an integrated lung health approach”. This resolution has a broad scope, including noncommunicable lung diseases, such as asthma, COPD, and lung cancer communicable lung diseases, such as pneumonia and tuberculosis relevant …
Congratulations to Refiloe Masekela, MD, PhD — member of the GINA Science Committee — on being awarded the 2025 American Thoracic Society World Lung Health Award! This honor recognizes Dr. Masekela’s exceptional contributions to global lung health and her unwavering dedication to advancing respiratory care, especially in underserved communities. We are incredibly proud to see …
On 6 May, World Asthma Day, the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), launched a campaign to spur action to reduce the wide gaps in access to inhaled medicines for COPD and asthma. Lack of access is causing a massive burden of suffering and high and rising health and economic costs in most countries. The campaign will …
On this World Asthma Day, May 6, 2025, the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) has chosen the theme “Make Inhaled Treatments Accessible for ALL”. GINA emphasizes the need to ensure that people with asthma can access inhaled medications that are essential both for controlling the underlying disease and treating attacks. Asthma attacks cause great distress for sufferers …
