Contacts: Bryan Hirsch, Corporate Accountability International
617-784-4753
David Lerner, Riptide Communications
212-260-5000

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Students, Community Leaders and Corporate Accountability Activists Urge Soft
Drink Giant to Stop Draining Water from Communities in India

WILMINGTON, Del .
Your lies and abusive actions have fueled outrage and distrust," said Sandeep
Pandey, a National Convenor of India's National Alliance of People's
Movements, in a written statement delivered at the shareholders' meeting.stopcorporateabuse.

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At 16, I have already visited villages
where there are almost no adults due to AIDS and I have seen children who are
sick because they do not have access to water.

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The enlarged
pictures were taken at Corporate Accountability International demonstrations
in Atlanta, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland,
San Francisco and on the march to Coke's plant in Mehdiganj, India. provide affidavits to the state's Attorney
General's office in support of DHS. In other
words, if most patients were properly treated for their HIV/AIDS,
there would be no wasting, and no need for additional interventions
such as Serostim.

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Corporate Accountability International, formerly Infact, is a membership
organization that protects people by waging and winning campaigns challenging
irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the world. Farthing: "I would care less if
I couldn't prescribe it at all.

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For over 25
years, we've forced corporations -- like Nestle, General Electric and Philip
Morris/Altria -- to stop abusive actions..

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Coke drains water from some of the poorest communities in the world to sell as
bottled water and make soft drinks. While
Coke's abuses may not affect our families in India directly, they really hit
home. "You may think I am young, gullible , and idealistic and that I don't
understand business.

* July, 2003, LOS ANGELES, CA -- Serono attempts to challenge the new
California Department of Health Services regulation requiring prior
authorization for Serostim. "It doesn't really provide any clinical benefit ,"
said Michael Weinstein, president of AIDS Healthcare.

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The soft drink
giant gets away with these irresponsible and dangerous actions because of its
political and economic clout. At the demonstration outside of the annual meeting, which
included a number of organizations, Corporate Accountability International
volunteers carried banners telling Coke to "stop stealing water" and hung
pictures arranged like prayer flags in front of Hotel Du Pont., by the US
Attorney's office over improper sales and pricing practices involving the drug
Serostim, a $7,000 a month drug to combat wasting in AIDS patients, AIDS
Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest AIDS organization in the US, has been
at the forefront of efforts to hold the drug company accountable and offers
the following timeline of its advocacy efforts:

* February, 2003, LOS ANGELES, CA -- AIDS Healthcare Foundation begins
advocating for stricter controls on California Department of Health
Services (DHS) prescriptions of Serostim. Citing the questionable
medical necessity of the expensive drug and noting the high degree of
fraud associated with black market sales of the drug to body builders
and weight lifters, AHF campaigns for California to require prior
authorization of the pricey drug before making it available through
programs like Medi-Cal and AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP).
Charles Farthing, M.'s motion to challenge California's Department of Health Services
(DHS) prior authorization requirement for Serono 's drug Serostim and
the drug remains on prior authorization status

* August , 2003 to April, 2005, LOS ANGELES, CA -- AIDS Healthcare
Foundation's advocacy continues as the international and national
press pick up the story of Serono's drug-pricing scandal .
We thank the federal authorities for zealously investigating and
pursuing Serono 's corporate malfeasance and greed, and are glad to see
that Serono will indeed be held accountable ."

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, At the Coca-Cola Company 's
annual shareholders' meeting today, community leaders, activists, and students
from across the country are challenging the soft drink giant for its abuses.
Coke also faces dissent from community leaders in Atlanta, Georgia -- its
hometown. According to Dhruti Contractor, founder and director of the Georgia
Indian American Political Action Committee, "This issue is personal. I fully support Medi-Cal's decision to require prior
authorization Serostim, "said Michael Weinstein."

* April, 2005, LOS ANGELES, CA -- AIDS Healthcare Foundation announces
support for the United States Department of Justice indictment of four
former Serono executives, on charges of bribing doctors to write
prescriptions for the company's AIDS wasting drug, Serostim, and urges
federal authorities to hold the company itself accountable over the
bribery scandal involving its pricey AIDS wasting drug. "We are glad
to finally see some accountability in the scandal involving the sales
and marketing of this expensive AIDS wasting drug," said AHF President
Michael Weinstein

* April, 2005, LOS ANGELES, CA -- Following Serono's announcement of the
allocation of $725 million to settle a Department of Justice
investigation involving Serostim and amid speculation that the company
is preparing to pay one of the largest ever settlements in a
government pharmaceutical inquiry, AIDS Healthcare Foundation releases
a statement supporting federal authorities' thorough investigation
into the company's questionable sales and pricing practices and for
holding Serono and its executives accountable over the bribery scandal
involving its pricey AIDS wasting drug.

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"When will you take a first step in the right direction, and permanently shut
down your bottling plants in communities that have rejected your abusive
practices, like Mehdiganj and Plachimada?" Pandey's statement was delivered
by Jim Fassett-Carman, a Corporate Accountability International activist who
marched 150 miles with Pandey and other supporters in November 2004. I believe that for Indian Americans in metro-Atlanta and Georgia, we
have an obligation to act on this issue. AIDS wasting that I and
other AHF physicians have seen results not from contracting HIV/AIDS,
but from failure of adherence to a treatment regimen ."

* August, 2003, LOS ANGELES, CA -- The Superior Court for the State of
California, County of Los Angeles (Case No.

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Activists Challenge Coca-Cola Over Water Abuses at Annual Shareholders' Meeting

The march
culminated in a peaceful 1500-person protest at Coke's plant in Mehdiganj,
where water levels have dropped over forty feet and farmers do not have enough
water to irrigate crops. You are wrong . These experiences not only
compel me to take action to end these abuses but also drive me to educate
others -- especially my peers -- to challenge Coke," sixteen-year-old Kenney
says. A Timeline of AHF's Campaign to Hold Serono Accountable for Improper Pricing
Practices Involving the AIDS Wasting Drug, Serostim

LOS ANGELES, Amid the ongoing
investigation of the Swiss biotechnology company, Serono Inc.D. AHF cites the fact that too many patients use Serostim to
enhance their appearance rather than improve their health and many
others sell their allotment on the black market to bodybuilders, who
buy the drug to build muscle mass for a fraction of the drug's
Medicaid price tag.

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In just a few months,
thousands of Corporate Accountability International members and activists have
joined with allies in India to demand that Coke stop stealing water, and start
by permanently closing the Plachimada plant, shutting down its plant in
Mehdiganj , and paying for the damage it has done to affected communities. "At a time when Medicaid is cutting back,
Serostim shouldn't be in the formula at all. continue to pressure Serono to
come clean about their improper sales and pricing practices involving
Serostim. An article published in the Wall Street Journal on
January 19, 2004 about the high degree of Medicaid fraud associated
with black market sales of the drug to body builders and weight
lifters, illustrates doctors' growing skepticism over Serostim's
treatment value with a quote from Dr.

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" Meanwhile
dozens of people gathered in front of Hotel du Pont with banners and signs
protesting Coke's irresponsible and dangerous actions around the world.

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In draining water from communities for soft drinks and bottled water, Coke is
an industry leader that threatens this very basic human right. AHF President, Michael Weinstein
praises the Davis administration for responding to pleas from AHF and
other advocates to clamp down on Serostim abuse in a time of
threatened health-care cuts. Dr.

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For more information visit
http://www.org. Prior
authorization status still allows for the drug to be available and
prescribed through programs overseen by Department of Health Services
(DHS) such as California's cash -strapped AIDS Drug Assistance Program
(ADAP), a source of AIDS drugs for many Californians living with
HIV/AIDS; however, a DHS official must review and approve the
prescription as being medically necessary for the particular Medi-Cal
patient rather than it being automatically available on DHS drug
program formulary without question.

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Isdell, Coke's practices in India are devastating people's lives."
Illai Kenney, a spokesperson for Kids Against Pollution and a national
coordinator for Black Youth Vote, another group working with Corporate
Accountability International, also came from Atlanta to speak at today's
meeting. "It is unfortunate that the company chose to take
advantage of physicians, providers and people living with HIV/AIDS to
unfairly promote the sales and use of this enormously expensive drug.

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"We are pleased to see that
Serono will pay the price for its misdeeds and illegal conduct in the
sales and marketing of its drug, Serostim," said Michael Weinstein,
President of AHF.

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AHF vs. Serono: Anatomy of an Advocacy Victory

Two AIDS Healthcare Foundation officials,
AHF President , Michael Weinstein and AHF Chief of Medicine, Dr. Public
statements by AHF President, Michael Weinstein and AHF Chief of
Medicine, Dr.

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Our members are joining with people around the
world to reject Coke's abuses," said Corporate Accountability International
Associate Campaigns Director Gigi Kellett, today at the shareholders' meeting. Farthing added,
"While Serostim may be effective in treating AIDS wasting, the
benefits that can be had from Serostim can be gotten more directly and
more beneficially from other treatments..

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"Ensuring that people have access to water is an emerging global crisis.
"Mr.

* April, 2003, SACRAMENTO , CA -- After intensive advocacy efforts by
AIDS Healthcare Foundation, California state officials announce new
regulations requiring prior authorization for Serostim. "As California tries to grapple
with a $38 billion budget deficit, Serono had the hubris to file a
writ to try to block the Department of Health Service's move to place
Serostim -- a non-essential drug that has cost Medi-Cal more than
$175 million over the past four years -- on a prior authorization
status.

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Corporate Accountability International has joined the growing number of
labor and environmental groups who are challenging Coke's abuses , and is
highlighting its failure to meet the Standards of Political Conduct for
Corporations.

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As CEO Neville Isdell presides over his
first shareholders' meeting, activists are delivering powerful statements from
a range of communities calling on Coke to "stop stealing water.
The movement challenging Coke's abuses is growing."

* August, 2003, Los Angeles, CA -- AIDS Healthcare Foundation releases a
statement publicly criticizing Serostim saying that the pricey drug is
not essential for treatment and should not be on the Medicaid
formulary. BS -083758) rejects Serono
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