About GINA

gina-logoGINA logo GINA means Global Initiative for Asthma, a collaborative project of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (US).
It is the most important worldwide project on asthma.

GINA is one of the co-founders of  Global Alliance Against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD) from WHO

GINA goals

    • Increase awareness of asthma and its public health consequences 

    • Promote identification of reasons for the increased prevalence of asthma

    • Promote study of the association between asthma and the environment  
        
    • Reduce asthma morbidity and mortality    

    • Improve management of asthma 

    • Improve availability and accessibility of effective asthma therapy

 

GINA Documents

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    • The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) strives to increase awareness of asthma among health professionals, health authorities, and the general public. Its goals include improving diagnoses, management and prevention of asthma by stimulating research, and providing evidence-based educational resources for worldwide use.
    • The GINA global strategy for asthma management and prevention is presented in its strategy documents, which are freely available on the GINA Website.
    • The GINA Scientific Committee prepares updates to these documents each year, which are made available on the GINA Website as they are completed. The Scientific Committee has developed a sophisticated set of procedures to review the world's literature with regards to asthma management and to update the GINA documents to reflect this state-of-the-art information.

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