SAVING CHILDREN EVERYWHERE

UNICEF provides nearly a billion US dollars' worth of vaccines each year for more than half of the world's children. Worth supporting? Certainly.

And that's why two of its pharmaceutical suppliers, NOVARTIS AG in Switzerland and MERCK & CO in the United States refuse to allow UNICEF to release the prices they pay to these two giant money-makers.

They don't want competition. They want as much profit as they can get their greedy hands on. Health care? Saving children? Those are foreign words in the offices of JOSEPH JIMINEZ and JURGEN BROKATSKY-GEIGER at NOVARTIS and KENNETH C. FRAZIER and RICHARD T. CLARK at MERCK & CO.

Why not write to them to tell them what you think about them and their companies.

JOSEPH JIMINEZ, Chief Executive Officer
Novartis International AG
CH 4002 Basel
Switzerland

JUERGEN BROTAKOWSKY-GEIGER, Head of Human Resources
Novartis International AG
CH 4002 Basel
Switzerland

KENNETH C. FRAZIER, President and Chief Executive Officer
Merck & Co.
One Merck Drive
P. O. Box 100
Whitehouse Station, New Jersey 08889-0100
USA

RICHARD T. CLARK, Chairman of the Board
Merck & Co.
One Merck Drive
P. O. Box 100
Whitehouse Station, New Jersey 08889-0100
USA

To read more about their shame and about UNICEF's work, go to

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/29/ap/health/main20067144.shtml

Thank you for joining this decent act of protest on behalf of the world's children. And in the meantime, make certain that your doctors don't try to prescribe medicines from NOVARTIS or MERCK for you or anyone else.

Bert Hornback