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lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Former Swiss President joins call
for Novartis to drop its case in India<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">More prominent figures have
joined the chorus of over 300,000 people worldwide voicing concerns about
Novartis’ legal challenge against the Indian government and its impact on access
to essential medicines across the globe.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">They include the former Swiss
President, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Stephen Lewis former UN Special Envoy for
HIV/AIDS in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>, and Dr. Michel Kazatchkine,
the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt"><B><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>The full story is found in </SPAN></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: black">South-North Development Monitor (SUNS) #6192, 16 February
2007 available from TWN.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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