Community Oriented Program for Control Of Rheumatic Diseases

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WHO celebrated 1977 as the World Rheumatism year and this resulted in a dialogue between ILAR and WHO that led to the idea of COPCORD, Community Oriented Program for Control of Rheumatic Diseases as a joint project between WHO and ILAR.[1][2] COPCORD promotes low cost epidemiological research in developing countries[3] and has contributed to the understanding of disease burden in data poor regions[4] It has centers in 21 developing countries and has resulted in 102 peer reviewed international publications.

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  1. ^ Haq SA, Rasker JJ, Darmawan J, Chopra A (April 2008). "WHO-ILAR-COPCORD in the Asia-Pacific: the past, present and future". Int J Rheum Dis. 11 (1): 4–10. doi:10.1111/j.1756-185X.2008.00321.x.
  2. ^ Rasker JJ, Freddy Arnauts LJ (July 2005). "The "New" International League of Associations for Rheumatology". J Rheumatol (Editorial). 32 (7): 1177.
  3. ^ Chopra A (Jun 2012). "The WHO ILAR COPCORD Latin America: consistent with the world and setting a new perspective". J Clin Rheumatol. 18 (4): 167–9. doi:10.1097/RHU.0b013e31825d929b. PMID 22653622.
  4. ^ "Over 4 mn Indians could be living with chronic joint pain". indianexpress.com. Retrieved 2016-11-03.