Towards regional progress: <scp>APSR</scp> 2022 Big Five Lung Diseases Workshop

Background: In conjunction with the Annual Scientific Congress of the APSR held in Seoul, South Korea in November 2022, a workshop was held which brought together representatives from the APSR, Union APR, WHO SEARO and WHO WPRO. The input was sought from successful national groups that would address issues relating to Asthma, COPD, Lung Cancer, Tuberculosis and non-TB infections (the ‘Big Five’), with a focus on broad applicability including to lower-middle income countries. Objective: Recognizing that a strategic objective of each organization was to expand or create new relationships with other regional organizations with like intent, the objective of the workshop was to bring together their somewhat differing resources and different ways of functioning and use their overlapping memberships, to…