Tonya A. Winders

GAAPP Mission: To globally support and empower patients with allergies, airways and atopic diseases by protecting their rights and insisting on the duties of governments, healthcare professionals and the general public. GAAPP Objectives: To establish a global network to empower patients with allergies, airways and atopic diseases by: - Working together with governmental and health-care organizations to minimize the impact of allergies, asthma, COPD, atopic dermatitis and urticaria - Being an equal partner involved in the decision-making from inception to conclusion with global health-care organizations - Facilitating the founding of patient organizations in emerging countries fighting for best-practice therapy To support the worldwide community managing allergies, airways and atopic diseases by: - Assisting patients to take an active role in managing their disease and empowering those who support them in the process - Demanding unpolluted healthy air for patients - Collaborating with member organizations to help with health and social policy concerns -Aid emerging countries with the necessary diagnostic and therapeutic remedies for patients