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World COPD Day is an annual event organized by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) to improve awareness and care of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) around the world. World COPD Day 2008 took place on November 19. The theme of this year's event was Breathless not Helpless!

Click here to view a slideshow of WCD 2008 activities.

On World COPD Day, events in dozens of countries worldwide involved patients, families, health care professionals, and public health officials in raising awareness of this disease and what can be done to combat it.

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World COPD Day takes place each year on the second or third Wednesday in November.

Information for COPD Patients

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