World Asthma Day 2025

World Asthma Day 2025

In celebration of World Asthma Day 2025, the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) has

chosen the theme “Make Inhaled Treatments Accessible for ALL”. GINA emphasizes the

need to ensure that people with asthma can access inhaled medications that are

essential both for controlling the underlying disease and treating attacks.

Asthma attacks cause great distress for sufferers and their carers, and these attacks

may result in hospital admission and, in some cases, death. Inhaled corticosteroid-

containing medications prevent asthma attacks by treating the underlying

inflammation that causes asthma.

Doctors and allied health care professionals are called upon to ensure that every

person with asthma is prescribed evidence-based, essential, inhaled corticosteroid-

containing medication in addition to (or in combination with) reliever medication, to

prevent the continuing avoidable morbidity and mortality from asthma.

Asthma is one of the most common chronic non-communicable diseases that affects

over 260 million people and is responsible for over 450,000 deaths each year

worldwide. Most of these deaths are preventable.

In low-middle-income countries, lack of availability or high cost of inhaled medicines,

especially inhaled corticosteroid-containing inhalers, are major contributors to the fact

that 96% of global asthma deaths occur in these countries.

Even in high income countries, high costs can mean that many people with asthma have

limited access to essential inhaled medicines, resulting in poorly controlled asthma and

preventable asthma deaths.

Policy makers, governments, payers, pharmaceutical industry manufacturers and

suppliers are called upon to increase their awareness of the continuing preventable

morbidity and mortality associated with asthma in spite of the existence of evidence

based, highly effective management of asthma.

We call on everyone to increase their efforts to “Make Inhaled Treatments

Accessible for ALL”, in all countries throughout the world.

See www.ginasthma.org/reports