>From: David Alberto Murillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [boletinamigos] [Fwd: ENDORSE THIS: Global actions against Coke >demanding AIDS drugs forAfrican workers 10/17] >Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 23:44:02 -0500 > > > >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: ENDORSE THIS: Global actions against Coke demanding AIDS drugs >forAfrican workers 10/17 >Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 15:25:47 -0400 >From: Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: healthgap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >In Barcelona, major AIDS groups from across the globe issued a call for >actions on October 17th demanding AIDS drugs for Coca Cola's 100,000 >employees and bottling plant workers in Africa. The numbers of countries >and >cities planning actions is growing rapidly, and the company is running >scared. Please help keep the pressure on Coke -- we are about to win a >historic victory! > >PLEASE ENDORSE: please complete the form at the end of this e-mail and >send > it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >TO PARTICIPATE: e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for local actions or to get > help planning one. > > >COCA-COLA, WORKPLACE HIV TREATMENT, AND A GLOBAL DAY OF PROTEST > > Dear Colleagues, > >Please distribute the following announcement widely. It invites >organizations to endorse and take part in a Global Day of Protest >against >Coca-Cola on October 17, 22, for refusing to provide AIDS treatment for >workers and their dependents in developing countries. > >The struggle for expanding affordable access to AIDS treatment gained a >victory in August of 2002, when under pressure from labor and AIDS >groups, >the mining giants Anglo American, Anglo Gold and De Beers agreed to >provide >AIDS treatment-including antiretroviral drugs-to their workers. In the >case >of De Beers, the offer extends to a single sex partner of a De Beer's >worker-but not to dependents. Gold Fields stands out as one of the >largest >mining corporations in sub-Saharan Africa left that still refuses to >provide >AIDS drugs to its workforce, with an estimated HIV seroprevalence of >25%. > >While we believe the onus of public health is on the public sector, >businesses have a responsibility to fulfill the human right to treatment >among HIV positive workers and dependents. As corporations implement >workplace treatment programs, pressure is brought upon on governments >who >are no longer credible in their arguments that treatment is not >feasible. > >Coca-Cola, another corporation that has enjoyed a rapidly growing >market, >decades of escalating profit and low labor costs in Africa, also refuses >to >pay for HIV treatment for the bulk of its workers. Instead, Coke issued >a >policy in June 2001 that only HIV positive people among Coke >administrative >staff are eligible for access to treatment. This leaves almost 100,000 >bottlers and distributors without access to medicines should they become >sick with HIV. > >We challenge Coca-Cola to fulfill its fundamental obligation- to >implement >comprehensive HIV/AIDS workplace programs and policies, which include >treatment and care for infected workers and their dependents. > >With the HIV/AIDS pandemic decimating whole societies, Coca-Cola must >take >responsibility for its workplace policies and programs and ensure all >HIV >infected workers, and their dependents, have access to AIDS treatment >and >care. > >We ask you to join us in this campaign. Without international pressure >and >attention on Coca-Cola, their policy of inaction and neglect resulting >in >otherwise preventable infections and needless illness and death in its >massive workforces in Africa, and in Asia, particularly India and >Thailand >will not change. > > >In Solidarity, > >Sharonann Lynch >Health GAP >ACT UP New York >USA > >Zackie Achmat >Treatment Action Campaign >South Africa > > > >*please distribute widely and excuse multiple postings* > >************************************************************* > >STOP MEDICAL APARTHEID -- FIGHT FOR AIDS TREATMENT FOR WORKERS > >Call on Coca-Cola, others corporations to treat workers with HIV > >OCTOBER 17, 2002: GLOBAL DAY OF PROTEST AGAINST CORPORATIONS DENYING >AIDS >DRUGS > >************************************************************* > >Join ACT UP, Health GAP, Treatment Action Campaign, and others to demand >Coca-Cola and other multinational corporations pay for AIDS treatment >for >workers living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries. > >************************************************************* >DEMANDS > >We demand Coca-Cola and other multinational corporations operating in >developing countries: > >* Provide all workers and their dependents with comprehensive healthcare >- >including life-sustaining antiretroviral treatments. > >* Offer confidential HIV testing and counseling to all workers, in the >context of a clear anti-discrimination policy. > >* Distribute free condoms in the workplace, and provide safer-sex and >sexual >health education classes. > >* Develop further HIV/AIDS prevention and education policies in >collaboration with affected employees, their labor representatives, and >community-based health initiatives. > >************************************************************* >MORE INFORMATION > >Tel: 1-212-674-9598, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Go to: http://www.treat-your-workers.org > >- fact sheet on Coke and workers living HIV/AIDS > >- updated list of endorsers and campaign materials > >- activist toolkits for students, non-students > >- growing list of events, protests > >********************************* >HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GLOBAL DAY OF PROTEST: > >ENDORSE the Global Day of Protest against Coca-Cola by filling out the >form >below and sending via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >MOBILIZE people in your area, your organization, on your campus. >Download >activist and student toolkits at www.treat-your-workers.org > >ORGANIZE: Activists in the U.S., South Africa, Thailand, Morocco, and >France >will take part in a global day of action to protest Coca-Cola. Similar >to >other coordinated solidarity campaigns, the groups will protest >Coca-Cola at >location in various countries and cities on the same day. Contact >Health >GAP for information on how to take part in your area. > >********************************* >Take Action: Tell Coke executives to provide AIDS treatment for all of >their >HIV + workers in Africa > >1) Write, Fax, and Call Coca-Cola today: > >- Phone: 404-676-4971 or Fax: 404-515-2226 > >- Download and fax in the community letter to Coke's CEO Doug Daft: > www.treat-your-workers.org > >2) Join the campaign for access to HIV/AIDS treatment for workers & > families, and the GLOBAL DAY OF PROTEST- Oct 17, 2002. > > Contact: > Sharonann Lynch > Health GAP > Phone: 1-212-674-9598 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www.healthgap.org > www.treat-your-workers.org > >******** >SPONSORS > >The organizations sponsoring the Global Day of Protest against Coca-Cola >include Treatment Action Campaign (South Africa), Global AIDS Alliance, >European AIDS Treatment Group, Association Marocaine de Lutte Contre le >Sida >(Association Fighting AIDS), Morocco, Health GAP, ACT UP New York, ACT >UP >Philadelphia, Act Up-Paris, ACT UP East Bay, the Thai Network of People >Living with HIV (TNP+), and Student Global AIDS Alliance. > >Full list of endorsers below. > >*********************************************************************** > >ENDORSE THE GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST COKE, OCTOBER 17, 2002. > >SEND TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I / We endorse the Global Day of Protest against Coke. > >Name: >Organization: >Email: >Address: >Phone: >Fax > >Endorsement is >( ) Individual >( ) Organizational >( ) Both > >I / my organization can assist with the following needs: >( ) Will attend / bring others >( ) Will assist with the Global Day of Protest by: > > > >*********************************************************************** > >SEND TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For background information on the campaign to expand access to AIDS >treatment in developing countries: http://www.globaltreatmentaccess.org > > >Paul Davis >Health GAP >ACT UP Philadelphia >e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >t: +1 215.833.4102 (mobile) >f: +1 215.474.4793 >w: www.healthgap.org > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Para darte de baja, envía un mensaje a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Para obtener ayuda, visita http://www.eListas.net/foro/boletinamigos > > > >_______________________________________________________________________ >Visita nuestro patrocinador: >~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ > ¿Cuando es rentable la publicidad en Internet? > Programas de afiliacion, número 1 en Europa con... > ~~ Trade Doubler ~~ >Haz clic aquí -> http://elistas.net/ml/84/##K >~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
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