Film project: COPD and alpha-1-antitripsin deficiency
Event: Action Plan 2008-2013, GARD, Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Disease.
Background to project concept One of the projects initiated in 2009 is to produce a short documentary on COPD, a chronic respiratory disease, associated with alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency as the prime genetic cause.
The documentary aims to achieve several objectives amongst which figure the following:
Alert the viewer to the problems surrounding COPD.
Show that in some cases , there is also a special cause for COPD: alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency and the simple process required to diagnose this condition.
Offer information which is useful for patients, family carers, institutions and health services, etc.