<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Judit Rius </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">April 23, 2013 8:39:28 AM PDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b> Tell Members of Congress to Protect Access to Lifesaving Medicines</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Judit Rius </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><font size="4"><b>Dear all, </b></font> <br> <br><font size="4"><b>MSF USA has launched an action alert on the TPP. Please share broadly </b></font> <br> <br><a href="http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/take-action/tpp/"><font size="4"><b>http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/take-action/tpp/</b></font></a> <br> <br><font size="4"><b>Tell Members of Congress to Protect Access to Lifesaving Medicines</b></font><p><font size="3">Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) relies on affordable quality generic medicines to treat tuberculosis, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and many more infections for patients in developing countries.</font> </p><p><font size="3"><b>But right now the U.S. government is advocating for trade terms with ten Pacific Rim nations that could restrict production of and access to generic medicines, making life-saving medicine unaffordable for millions.</b></font> </p><p><font size="3">The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations are being conducted in secret, but leaked copies of some chapters show that the US proposals would roll back internationally-held public health safeguards and impose rules to keep medicine prices high and out of reach of millions in the Asia-Pacific region. Even more alarming is the fact that the TPP is being billed as a template for future trade agreements across the globe.</font> </p><p><font size="3"><b>Too many people already suffer and die because the medicines they need are too expensive or do not exist.</b> We cannot stand by as this proposed agreement threatens to restrict access even further.</font> </p><p><font size="3"><b>Calling your members of Congress takes just a minute or two, and it’s one of the most effective ways to get their attention. Congress needs to know that if the USTR proposals for this agreement are included in the final deal, this will have a real cost in human lives – a cost that their constituents think is far too high.</b></font> </p><p> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Judit Rius Sanjuan</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">U.S. Manager of the Access Campaign</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><b>Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)</b></font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">333 Seventh Ave, 2nd Floor</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">New York, NY 10001 USA</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Office: +1 212 655 3762 // Mobile: +1 917 331 9077</font> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:judit.rius@newyork.msf.org">judit.rius@newyork.msf.org</a> </font> </p><p> ---<br></p></div><br></body></html>