OFF TOPIC: ZAP ALERT AGAINST ABBOTT

[Guest guest]

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY & TAKE 5 MINUTES TO ACT:

This Zap is effective tomorrow, December 23rd.

Please take five minutes to call.

Agencies & people with access to fax also encouraged to send faxes (of all sorts).

ZAP ALERT:

CALL AND FAX ABBOTT: Beginning Dec 23rd

DO YOU KNOW THAT:

· Abbott recently increased the cost of its protease inhibitor Norvir by 400% (5 times)?

· Norvir is the only drug used to help boost levels (and effectiveness) of other PIs?

· This price increase will double the cost of some PI therapies?

· Abbott is limiting treatment options for people with AIDS—all to protect Abbott's market share for Kaletra!!!!!!

· Doctors in the US and Europe have demanded that Abbott rescind this outrageous price increase, and are threatening to boycott anything-Abbott until the company changes its mind?

WHAT ARE ZAPS? Phone and fax "zaps" have historically been a successful direct action strategy to mobilize thousands of people with the use of modern technology. Zaps have been successful in AIDS actions to get the message across quickly and effectively, jamming up corporate phone and fax lines, and spreading the word to thousands of people.

THE TIME HAS COME TO CALL ABBOTT AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT WE THINK.

BEGIN: Tomorrow, Dec 23rd

CALL

FAX:

TELL CEO MILES WHITE TO

TAKE BACK THE PRICE INCREASE NOW!

MESSAGES:

§ CONTRIBUTING TO THE AIDS CRISIS

§ CA$HING IN ON SALVAGE THERAPY

§ FEEDING OFF PEOPLE WITH AIDS

§ THREATENING NEW DRUG DEVELOPMENT

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