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    GTAC & HEALTH GAP COALITION PRESS RELEASES
    Issue: Pfizer Pharmaceutical's Price Gouging

    • 18 DECEMBER 2000 (Cape Town) TAC's Biozole 101% Equivalent to Pfizer's Diflucan according to an independent test conducted by a laboratory regularly used by by the Medicines Control Council. Read TAC's press release

    • 30 NOVEMBER 2000 (Cape Town) Medicines Control Council grants a conditional Section 21 exemption for the distribution of generic Fluconazole in South Africa. Read TAC Press Statement.

    • 07 SEPTEMBER 2000 (New York City) ACT UP New York Press Release: At Pfizer's world headquarters in Manhattan, activists demand life-saving drugs for poor countries. ACT UP protests United Nations "bluewashing" Pfizer's public image despite killer price-gouging. ACT UP Press release
    • 09 JULY 2000 (Durban) TAC Announces Next Steps: MTCT; Compulsory license against Pfizer; Defiance Campaign against drug companies- importation of essential medicines; Launch of national Treatment Action Council.
    • 09 JULY 2000 (Durban) Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Health Gap deliver MEMORANDUM at end of the Global AIDS March Global Manifesto to Save 34 Million Lives: Measures Needed to Rapidly Expand Access to Essential Treatments for HIV/AIDS. Read the memo online | Download Memorandum
    • 07 JULY 2000 (Durban) Statement released by ACT UP Philadelphia: Activists Blow Away Smokescreens, Expose Real Issues at International AIDS Conference.
    • 05 JULY 2000 (Durban) Treatment Action Campaign & Health GAP PRESS RELEASE : GLOBAL MARCH FOR ACCESS TO HIV/AIDS TREATMENTS: WILL BREAK THE SILENCE ON PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY PROFITEERING AND GOVERNMENT INACTION. Read press release online | Download Word Document | Zulu version online
    • 26 JUNE 2000 ACT UP PRESS RELEASE : AIDS ACTIVISTS TURN UP THE HEAT ON PFIZER. Protest today at Pfizer office. Escalation planned for Durban AIDS conference.
    • 21 JUNE 2000 (Johannesburg) Treatment Action Campaign PRESS RELEASE : INVITATION TO PICKET Pfizer's South African Headquarters.
    • 20 JUNE 2000 (Pietermaritzburg) Treatment Action Campaign PRESS RELEASE : PFIZER DONATION PROTECTS PROFITS WHILE PEOPLE WITH HIV/AIDS DIE! PRESS RELEASE and INVITATION TO PICKET
    • 20 JUNE 2000 Treatment Action Campaign Letter to William C. Steere, CEO of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.
    • 20 JUNE 2000 (Geneva) Médecins Sans Frontières PRESS RELEASE : PFIZER LIMITS SCOPE OF DONATION OF HIV DRUG IN SOUTH AFRICA. MSF Reiterates Demand that Pfizer Unconditionally Reduce Price or Issue Voluntary License for Fluconazole. Read Online
    • 19 JUNE 2000 (Pietermaritzburg) Treatment Action Campaign PRESS RELEASE : TAC Announces Steps to Protest Limitations in Pfizer's Donation Offer By refusing to negotiate, Pfizer is condemning countless people to suffering and possible death because they cannot afford the unreasonable price that the company is putting on the drug. Pfizer's "gift" appears to have been a fraud to protect their profits. Read Online | Download Word Document
    • 16 JUNE 2000 (Nairobi) Médecins Sans Frontières PRESS RELEASE : LONG-TERM STRATEGY NEEDED TO TREAT AIDS IN POOR COUNTRIES. New Study Shows East Africans Pay More Than Europeans For Life-Saving Drugs Read Online
    • 10 MAY 2000 ACT UP PARIS PRESS RELEASE : Act Up Paris activists jammed Pfizer's world Viagra plant in Touraine, France, into a standstill. Activists denounced Pfizer's pricing policy which is directly responsible for the death of thousands of People With AIDS living in developing countries. Read Online | Download Word Document
    • 04 MAY 2000 PFIZER Announces Diflucan Donation Program. Activists and organizations call for a long-term strategy. Treatment Action Campaign | ACT UP | Médecins Sans Frontières
    • 27 APRIL 2000 ACT UP PRESS RELEASE : AIDS ACTIVISTS DISRUPT PFIZER SHAREHOLDERS MEETING. Protesters scatter pill bottles and seize microphones demanding affordable, sustainable access to fluconazole
    • 22 MARCH 2000 ACT UP PRESS RELEASE : ACTIVISTS ENTER PFIZER HEADQUARTERS WITH DEMANDS OF PRICE REDUCTIONS FOR AFRICA. Activists were demanding that Pfizer drop the price of Diflucan, their Patented anti-fungal drug which Pfizers prices out of the reach or the poor, condemning hundreds of thousands of poor people with AIDS to blindness and painful deaths. Read Online | Download Word Document
    • 13 MARCH 2000 Organizations and Activists release statements in support Treatment Action Campaign's efforts against Pfizer's pricing and patent policies. ACT UP Philadelphia | Médecins Sans Frontières | ACT UP Paris | IGLHRC
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