To mark World Asthma Day 2025, the Global Asthma Network (GAN) will launch the Global Asthma Report 2025: Patient Stories, a compelling collection of stories from people living with asthma around the world.
More than 250 million people worldwide are living with asthma – a significant global health burden. This year’s World Asthma Day theme, “Make inhaled treatments accessible for all,” reinforces the urgency of ensuring universal access to affordable, quality-assured asthma medicines.
Asthma inhalers are included in the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines, are core medicines in the WHO package of essential noncommunicable disease (NCD) interventions for primary health care, and are included in the WHO “Best Buys” for NCDs. Yet some of the basic inhalers (bronchodilators and steroids) are not available, or affordable in many countries.
