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A Death in San Pedro Sula

TAGline - Volume 11 Issue 7 - July 2004


To: Ann Prochilo (San Francisco)
(Pfizer PR consultant)
From: Richard Stern (Costa Rica)

Ann, can you, as a human being, imagine what it is like for a 12-year old boy to die of starvation over a period of weeks, strangled by oral candidiasis, a disease that would have been perfectly curable with fifteen to twenty pills [of Diflucan/ fluconazole] if only his family had been able to buy them?

(see e-mail exchange, this issue)

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