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Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD)
The IPCRG is an active member of the World Health Organisation’s Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD). There is now clear acknowledgement of the global challenges in preventing and controlling chronic respiratory disease and of the central importance of primary care in achieving improvements. Our current IPCRG representative at GARD is Niels Chavannes.IPCRG raises profile of primary care at WHO-GARD
In Rome, at the June 2009 Annual Meeting of the WHO’s Global Alliance Against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD) three IPCRG demonstration projects were approved. Congratulations to our colleagues in Vietnam and Bangladesh. (Proposals: Asthma and COPD management, Vietnam demonstration project and Better Breathing Bangladesh) We are delighted to report that Niels Chavannes was elected as Primary Care and Monica Fletcher as Allied Health Professional representatives on the GARD Planning Group, which constitutes the driving force behind GARD. We are at advanced stages of planning the next GARD meeting to be run in Toronto, just before our Biennial Conference, which will further enhance the profile of the role of primary care in preventing and controlling chronic respiratory disease.
General Meeting Report, Istanbul, Turkey, 30-31 May 2008
Final report from the 2008 GARD meeting, including a list of GARD demonstration projects. Click here to download it (PDF document, 2.5Mb). IPCRG is supporting this through the successful collaboration between its e-faculty and the team in Vietnam. See FRESH AIR on http://www.theipcrg.org/resneeds/index.php
Non-communicable Disease (NCD) Action Plan
The 61st World Health Assembly has endorsed an Non-communicable Disease (NCD) Action plan (WHA Resolution 61.14). Four major NCDs have been flagged up: Cardiovascular Diseases, Cancers, Chronic Respiratory
Diseases and Diabetes. Click here (PDF document).
Research Agenda
A WHO Meeting on A Prioritized Research Agenda for Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases has met. Click here for the Executive Summary of the chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) section (Word document).
GARD Action Plan
In addition, there was a WHO meeting in December 2008 on the essential list of drugs, including, for the first time, drugs for asthma and COPD. The recommendation is that peak flow meters, pulse oximetry, generic oral and inhaled corticosteroids, salbutamol, ipratropium, and adrenaline be among the equipment and essential medicines to be available in every primary health care centre. Click here for report on the role of GARD in supporting the WHO Action Plan to Prevent and Control Noncommunicable Diseases (Word document).
Further information
GARD website http://www.who.int/respiratory/gard/en/
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