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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We urge you all to sign this
petition and further forwarding it.</SPAN><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hani Serag<BR>Global Secretariat
Coordinator,</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The following EMAIL was sent to
you from the MSF Petition Website by </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Audrey
Rosa. </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR>please follow this link: <A
href="http://wwwmsf.org/petition_india/can_eng.html">http://wwwmsf.org/petition_india/can_eng.html</A>
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align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">PEOPLE
BEFORE PATENTS: <BR>THE LIVES OF MILLIONS ARE AT STAKE SIGN-ON TO HELP PROTECT
ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE MEDICINES!! </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">SIGN-ON TO
HELP PROTECT ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE MEDICINES!!</SPAN></B><SPAN
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Pharmaceutical
company Novartis is taking the Indian government to court. If the company wins,
millions of people across the globe could face their sources of affordable
medicines drying up.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=center><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">India</SPAN></st1:country-region></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> produces affordable medicines
that are vital to many people living in developing countries. Over half the
medicines currently used for AIDS treatment in developing countries come from
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place> and such medicines are used to
treat over 80% of the 80,000 AIDS patients in Médecins Sans Frontières
projects.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">If Novartis is
successful in its challenge against the Indian government and its patent law,
more medicines are likely to be patented in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
making it very difficult for generic producers to make affordable versions of
them. This could affect millions of people around the world who depend on
medicines produced in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Tell Novartis
it has no business standing in the way of people's right to access the medicines
they need. Sign on and urge Novartis to DROP THE CASE against the Indian
government.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SIGN MSF'S
'DROP THE CASE' PETITION</SPAN></B><SPAN
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><A
href="http://wwwmsf.org/petition_india/can_eng.html">http://wwwmsf.org/petition_india/can_eng.html</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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