GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Actions endanger millions with AIDS
The AIDS Therapeutic Treatment Now (ATTN) International Coalition asks you to sign-on in support of the campaign to urge major investors to divest GSK stock. Help stop corporate greed at the expense of human lives! Because of GSK's excessive HIV drug pricing, which set the standard for all HIV drugs, millions have died due to lack of accessibility to affordable drugs.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Actions endanger millions with AIDS
A call to divest GSK stock
Dear Colleagues:
The AIDS Therapeutic Treatment Now (ATTN) International Coalition asks you to sign-on in support of the campaign to urge major investors to divest GSK stock. This strategy has been effectively used against apartheid in South Africa and tobacco companies. Major pension funds such as California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), and large mutual funds will be pressed to divest themselves of GSK stock.
London-based GSK claims ownership of the drug, which was initially created in 1964 in the United States as a possible cancer drug, and first shown to be effective against HIV by National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers in the mid 1980's. The lawsuit was filed after the discovery that Burroughs Wellcome (now GlaxoSmithKline) lied to the United States Department of Commerce Patent and Trademark Office in 1986 in order to secure the patent on AZT.
Join ACT UP founder, Larry Kramer, in supporting the effort to bring GSK to accountability for billions of dollars in stolen profits at the expense of HIV/AIDS patients. Kramer says, “It is evil to possess a drug that you don't own and which can save lives and then deny it to the very dying people who need it. That is evil and that is murder”.
Help stop corporate greed at the expense of human lives! Because of GSK's excessive HIV drug pricing, which set the standard for all HIV drugs, millions have died due to lack of accessibility to affordable drugs.
STOP THE GREED!!
Help make HIV drugs accessible around the world.
We need your help now.
Please sign on TODAY to the form below: (Either hit Reply and send back the completed form or email your support to [email][email protected])
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I/We support the efforts to stop GlaxoSmithKline from profiting from AZT (and drugs comprised of AZT).
We join in asking major investors to DIVEST GSK STOCK!!
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Terri M. Ford ATTN Coordinator [email][email protected] Swazi Mlaba ATTN/South Africa [email][email protected]