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Plan your WAD event
On this page, we break down the activity planning process into a few simple steps, and guide you to the GINA resources that you'll find useful along the way.

World Asthma Day 2009 materials, including new resources focused on young children with asthma, are now available! Click on Step 5 below to access them.

Step 1: Choose an Activity
Step 2: Recruit Support
Step 3: Tell GINA
Step 4: Alert the Media
Step 5: Gather Resources
Step 6: Celebrate World Asthma Day!


1: Choose an Activity
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2: Recruit Support
  • Get advice about activity planning and be the first to find out about new World Asthma Day materials and resources: sign up for the World Asthma Day eNewsletter. (Subscribers receive early access to key resources such as the World Asthma Day press release.)
  • Link up with other World Asthma Day activity organizers in your area, and seek advice from organizers of past events, through GINA's listings of World Asthma Day activities around the world.
  • Talk to others you'd like to participate in your event: local or national government representatives; leaders of your hospital, medical school, or respiratory society; schools; prominent people with asthma such as athletes and entertainers. Use these GINA backgrounders (MS Word) to help inform them:
    What is Asthma?
    Asthma Control
    World Asthma Day
    GINA Backgrounder
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3: Tell GINA
  • Let us know about the activities youre planning for the public, health care professionals, and the media. We'll post the details on this Website.
    Fill in Web-based activity information form
    Download activity information form (MS Word) to email to GINA
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4: Alert the Media
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5: Gather Resources
  • GINA guidelines and other resources can be distributed as part of your event.
  • You may also wish to distribute one or more of the World Asthma Day backgrounders:
    What is Asthma?
    World Asthma Day
    GINA Backgrounder
    Asthma Control Backgrounder
    NEW! Backgrounder on Asthma in Children Under Age 5
  • Check our translations page to see if any GINA materials are available in your local language. If you make your own translation, please let us know!
  • "Brand" your World Asthma Day Materials with the 2009 World Asthma Day logo:
    Low-resolution (JPG), for documents and Websites
    High-resolution (JPG), for posters and banners
    High-resolution (EPS), for posters and banners
  • Posters or handouts for patients and the general public (MS Word documents):
    What Is Asthma Control?
    How to Control Your Asthma
    Know When Your Asthma is Getting Worse
    NEW! Your Child's Asthma Can Be Controlled
  • Credit where credit is due: We are happy for World Asthma Day activity organizers around the world to adapt GINA’s WAD materials with local information or statistics, or to “brand” their own materials with the WAD logo. However, we ask that you acknowledge GINA’s hard work in organizing this event:
    *If you adapt GINA’s materials for your own event, please do not remove the statement that GINA is the organizer of WAD where this statement appears on various materials.
    *If you add the WAD logo to your own educational materials, please also include the following statement in your document: “World Asthma Day is an annual awareness-raising event organized and sponsored by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA). For more information please visit www.ginasthma.org//WADindex.asp.”
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6: Celebrate World Asthma Day!
  • We hope your event is a great success!
  • After World Asthma Day, monitor your local media for coverage of your event.
  • Tell us how it went!
  • Remember, it's never too early to start planning for World Asthma Day next year!
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