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>From: David Alberto Murillo <amigos at prodigy.net.mx>
>To: boletinamigos at eListas.net
>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
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>-------- 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 <pdavis at critpath.org>
>To: healthgap <healthgap at critpath.org>
>
>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 info at healthgap.org
>TO PARTICIPATE: e-mail salynch at healthgap.org 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: info at healthgap.org
>
>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 salynch at healthgap.org.
>
>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: info at healthgap.org
>
> 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 INFO at HEALTHGAP.ORG
>
>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 INFO at HEALTHGAP.ORG
>
>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: pdavis at healthgap.org
>t: +1 215.833.4102 (mobile)
>f: +1 215.474.4793
>w: www.healthgap.org
>
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