1: Choose an Activity

• Use GINA's list of activity ideas to help get you started.
  View Activity Ideas in html
  Download Activity Ideas (MS Word)
• For more inspiration, browse through our listings of past and upcoming World Asthma Day activities around the world.

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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: follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
• 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 2012
  Asthma Control Challenge
  Hospitalization Survey
  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

• Use GINA's step-by-step guide to working with the media to help you gain media coverage of your World Asthma Day activities. Ideally, you'll begin working on your media strategy at least 6 weeks before your event.

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5: Gather Resources

• GINA guidelines and other resources can be distributed as part of your event.
• "Brand" your World Asthma Day Materials with the 2012 World Asthma Day logo:

High resolution, for banners and posters (.pdf)

Low resolution, for use at thumbnail size and on the Web (.jpg)

• You may also wish to distribute one or more of the World Asthma Day backgrounders:

What is Asthma?
Asthma Control
GINA Backgrounder
World Asthma Day 2012
Asthma Control Challenge
Hospitalization Survey

• 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
  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 http://www.ginasthma.org/wad-home.html.”

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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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