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DESCRIPTION:SUPPORTERS OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL AND\n\nFREE QUALITY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL 
 \n\nThe Oasis Clinic in Oakland, CA, which treats patients with Hepatitis-C 
 (HCV), is calling for a demonstration to protest the outrageous 
 price-gouging of Big Pharma corporations, like Gilead Sciences, which 
 hike-up the cost for essential, life-saving medications such as the cure 
 for the deadly Hepatitis-C virus, in order to reap huge profits. The Oasis 
 Clinic’s demand is:\n\n          PUBLIC HEALTH, NOT CORPORATE 
 WEALTH!\n\nThe Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal urges you to 
 support this demonstration! As many as 700,000 prisoners are among the 
 nearly 5.2 million Americans infected with HCV, according to the Center for 
 Disease Control, and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is among them. 
 \n\nThis JP Morgan investor conference is an invitation-only event which 
 entices corporate CEOs, CFOs, investors and other opportunist big-wigs to 
 slurp up the profits that can be made from gouging the victims of 
 life-threatening diseases such as Hepatitis-C. This includes Gilead 
 Sciences, the “owner” of Harvoni, which is the effective new cure for 
 HCV.\n\nOne pill a day for 12 weeks does the trick with a 95 percent cure 
 rate, but Gilead charges $1,000 per pill, or nearly $100,000 for a full 
 course of treatment!!\n\nPrisoners who are infected with Hep-C are among 
 the least likely to receive the newly available cure for the disease, due 
 to both the exaggerated price, and the refusal of prison authorities to 
 provide proper health care for inmates!\n\nMumia Abu-Jamal was infected in 
 1981, after he was shot by police and as a prisoner given a tainted blood 
 transfusion. Falsely convicted for killing a cop and sent to death row 
 (he’s now serving life without the possibility of parole), Mumia’s 
 infection began to show symptoms in 2015, which is typical for this 
 slow-incubating but usually fatal (if untreated) disease. Mass mobilization 
 by supporters is the only reason Mumia got any medical attention at all, 
 and he is still denied the curative Harvoni treatment which can ensure his 
 survival! The PA prison system is now trying to kill Mumia by medical 
 neglect!\n\nIn violation of National Institute of Health (NIH) regulations, 
 Gilead canceled its program to supply a certain amount of the drug at low 
 cost.   And the New York Times reported that in "a complicated deal to sell 
 hepatitis drugs at a small fraction of their usual cost while imposing 
 tight restrictions intended to protect lucrative markets in the West... for 
 the past year, Gilead has sold the drug to the Egyptian government for 
 about $10 a pill."\n\nMumia Abu-Jamal, though he nearly died for lack of 
 treatment last year, points out that he is only one of many. He supports 
 the demands for treatment of some 10,000 prisoners in Pennsylvania who 
 suffer from HCV infection. \n\nIn a recent federal appeal, lawyers fighting 
 for treatment of Mumia brought out evidence in court of a secret PA 
 Department of Corrections (DOC) protocol which explicitly provides for 
 observation, but NO treatment, for HCV infected prisoners! \n\nWE 
 DEMAND:\n\n*PUBLIC HEALTH, NOT CORPORATE WEALTH!\n\n*FREE TREATMENT FOR 
 HCV-INFECTED PRISONERS NOW!\n\n*NO EXECUTION BY MEDICAL NEGLECT!\n\n*JAIL 
 DRUG PROFITEERS, FREE MUMIA!\n\nLabor Action Committee To Free Mumia 
 Abu-Jamal\n\nPO Box 16222 • Oakland CA 94610 • 
 www.laboractionmumia.org\n\n06 January 2016              (Labor Donated)    
             January 6, 2016\n\n            Mumia Is Innocent!  Free 
 Mumia!\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/06/18781558.php
SUMMARY:Protest Gilead Sciences : for Hepatitis-C treatment for Mumia Abu-Jamal and all prisoners
LOCATION:JP MORGAN HEALTH CARE CONFERENCE\nWESTIN ST. FRANCIS HOTEL\n335 POWELL ST., 
 UNION SQUARE \nSAN FRANCISCO.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/06/18781558.php
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