AEGiS-GMHC: Astra Boycott

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Astra Boycott

TREATMENT ISSUES, Volume 6, Number 8 - September, 1992; The Gay Men's Health Crisis Newsletter of Experimental Therapies
David Gold

The boycott of Astra Pharmaceutical's widely used drug Xylocaine is in full swing with much publicity generated from the Amsterdam Conference. Many organizations and health care professionals have already signed on to the boycott, including Project Inform, Lamda Legal Defense, AIDS Project/LA, and the Swedish Lesbian and Gay Alliance. Let's hope Astra and its PR firm, Hill and Knowlton, come to their senses and reduce the $25,000 per year price of foscarnet, so that we all can get on to working on other issues. Call David Rephun at (212) 929-6143 to sign on to the boycott.

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