Evelyn, 78, lies in a hospital bed at Heideveld Community Day Clinic, receiving oxygen therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

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Watch: Struggling to Breathe: The Silent Burden of COPD & Asthma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ7zMOLo5C0&t=226s Michael Gwarisa in Cape Town For decades, Evelyn’s smoking and repeated lung infections from tuberculosis (TB) took a toll she barely noticed. What started as a simple cough or occasional shortness of breath gradually turned into a constant struggle for air. Now, even

Jacky Phillips smiling at her daughter Lorren Hansen at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, as they share a joyful moment during a pediatric asthma check-up.

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Michael Gwarisa, Cape Town “I almost quit my job so that I could monitor my child,” says Jacky Phillips, the mother of eight-year-old Lorren Hansen, who lives with severe asthma. Phillips works as a cashier at a fuel station in Atlantis, in South Africa’s Western Cape. She recalls that Lorren’s health challenges began shortly after