Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases
What is the Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD)?
GARD is a voluntary alliance of national and international organizations, institutions, and agencies commited towards the common goal to reduce the global burden of respiratory diseases.
The Global Alliance is part of the global work to prevent and control chronic diseases. Because most of the chronic respiratory diseases are under-diagnosed, under-treated and the access to essential medications in many countries is poor, a global effort to improve the diagnosis and the medical care is needed.
The Global Alliance was officially launched on 28 March 2006 in Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Do you share GARD vision?
As an interested individual you can show your support by signing up on the "A world where all people breathe freely" page on this website.
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Council of the EU conclusions on prevention, early diagnosis and treatment of chronic respiratory diseases in children
See (link below) the conclusions of the Council of the European Union which were unanimously adopted by all Ministers of Health of the European Union, December 2, 2011. And note paragraph 7 "WELCOMES existing networks and alliances, such as the Global Allergy and Asthma European Network (GA²LEN) and Global Alliance against Respiratory Diseases (GARD), created in 2004 and 2006 respectively to investigate and reduce the burden and improve early detection and proper treatment of chronic respiratory diseases in the EU."
GARD Kyrgyzstan Central Asian meeting, Bishkek, 21 February 2011
The meeting was initiated and organized by GARD Kyrgyzstan with support of the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyz Republic and WHO, on 21 February 2011 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The Honourable Minister of Health inaugurated the meeting and expressed his commitment to strengthen prevention and control of major non-communicable diseases including chronic respiratory diseases with a focus on primary health care. All major healthcare stakeholders from Kyrgyzstan took part in the meeting and discussions. Representatives from the Ministries of Health from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan also participated in the meeting and expressed their interest to support GARD expansion in Central Asian region. GARD Chairman Professor Jean Bousquet addressed the participants and presented the information about GARD objectives and its major achievements. WHO made presentations on the implementation of the Global NCD Action Plan and work related to primary health care in general and chronic respiratory diseases in particular following the decision of the GARD Executive Committee and Planning Group meeting in Barcelona in September 2010 to expand GARD activities at country and regional level. More details of the meeting will follow.
