Use these materials in your own advocacy for action on NCDs.
Policy Briefs
🔥Hot Topic: The Critical Role of Spacers in Asthma and COPD
Patient Stories
How do people living with COPD and asthma feel about inhaled medicines? Read more here
Decks
Media resources
- 🎗️ FIRS urges UN Member States to commit to urgent action on access to inhaled medicines for chronic respiratory diseases. Read about our expectations here: UNGA 2025 Expectations
- What Will It Take to Get Cinderella to the Ball? Chronic Respiratory Diseases have been sidelined for too long. To get them on the map, we need visibility, media, and political will.Read the full remarks by José Luis Castro, WHO Director-General Special Envoy for Chronic Respiratory Diseases here.
- Statement: UN NCD Multistakeholder Hearing
- Video: Watch Prof Halpin’s UN address ahead of the NCD High-level Meeting
- Press release: FIRS Hails World Health Assembly Resolution as Turning Point for Lung Health
Credits
The campaign is led by the FIRS Working Group on Access to Affordable Inhaled Medicines for COPD and Asthma. Please contact the following members for more information: David Halpin, d.m.g.halpin@exeter.ac.uk, Guy Marks, gmarks@theunion.org, Heather Zar, heather.zar@uct.ac.za
We acknowledge the leadership and support of the late Eric Bateman, FERS, FRCS, MBChB, MD, Professor of Medicine, Head of the Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town (UCT), and Founder, UCT Lung Institute, South Africa in the conception and development of this initiative. We honor his memory.