Our 4th Annual Rally will be different this year and will be held on NOVEMBER 14, 15, 2003.
 

EFFORTS Group Picture at Washington COPD Conference

For the past three years, we have been going, on our own, to the Capitol Building in Washington, D. C., in EFFORTS to bring about awareness about Emphysema and other lung diseases.  We put up tents on the lawn and had a blast together, meeting and talking with the folks that visited us and asked questions.

This year (2004) represents the culmination of what many of us have been working for.  This time we are joining other groups that are working on COPD Awareness, one of the original goals of EFFORTS and the reason for our 3 previous treks to Washington to ask for such recognition of our disease.  This will be to celebrate World COPD Month for which we are attempting to have our politicians write into law, as November 20th.  This also is the month we have chosen to have World COPD Awareness Day.

As you should be aware, we are also writing our political representatives to ask them to co-sponsor legislation to make November  Annual COPD Awareness month, see http://www.emphysema.net/awareness3.html

Here are the details for the combined conferences of several patient and provider groups for the event.

November 14^th & 15^th, 2003, will be the first National COPD Conference to be held in the United States, in Washington D.C..  We, as patients, have been asked to attend and participate in planning a future course of action to decrease the deaths and increase diagnosis and public awareness of COPD/Emphysema. The countries leading pulmonologists, federal and world health officials, and many public health and patient organizations will be attending. Our hopes for this conference are that a national policy will be formulated to increase research, diagnosis, and public awareness of this disease.

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