The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) works with health care professionals and public health officials around the world to reduce asthma prevalence, morbidity, and mortality.

Through resources such as evidence-based guidelines for asthma management, and events such as the annual celebration of World Asthma Day, GINA is working to improve the lives of people with asthma in every corner of the globe.


Who Are We?
GINA was launched in 1993 in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA, and the World Health Organization.

GINA's program is determined and its guidelines for asthma care are shaped by committees made up of leading asthma experts from around the world.

Read more about who is involved with GINA Committees.
Read more about the GINA Program.


GINA Objectives

	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.