Sign petition to put pressure on!

[mdudley]

A petition was begun to encourage Gilead to do the right thing.  Please sign it:
http://www.change.org/petitions/gilead-sciences-a-phase-iii-collaboration-for-the-treatment-of-hepatitis-c

I have emailed this link to all my family and friends and posted it on FB.  Lets make ourselves heard!  Who knows...this might be the spark needed to start the fire!

[mdudley]

Perhaps if you email the interview link to your local news stations, they will pick it up & run it. Worth a shot!  Maybe add something about your own circumstances dealing with this disease.  Let me know if I can offer any additional information and/or assistance.  My email address is posted on the petition page.  We are going "viral" on Hep C "virus :)))))

Warmest regards,
Margaret

[Hopinghepster]

Congratulations! You did brilliantly. I was tweeted the link to the interview by HCVResearch. I think it's a great tool to spread the word. I thought the tv station did a very good job. Let's hope it goes viral!

[mdudley]

Whew...just finished the interview with KENS-TV in San Antonio.  The segment will air at 4pm today on Channel 5 (for those of you in the viewing area).  I was so nervous...I stuttered and completely lost my train of thought a couple of times (as only a hepper can do).  I will post the link to the interview here and on the petition site when I get it.  I want you all to know that I could not and would not have done this, if it wasn't for your invaluable support and suggestions...(OH, fretboard, tiredofhepc...just to mention a few).  If a petition through Change.org can influence Bank of America to drop fees & the USDA to take "pink slime" out of our childrens' lunches, then I am confident that public pressure will be enough to urge Gilead Sciences forward with this cure for Hepatitis C.  So please keep sharing the petition!

Warmest regards,
Margaret

http://www.change.org/petitions/gilead-sciences-please-collaborate-with-bristol-myers-for-the-cure-for-hepatitis-c-now

[mdudley]

Petition Update: 3114 have signed

"Jeremiah: 8:22 Is there no medicine in Gilead?  Is there no physician there?  Why is there no healing of the wounds of my people?"

We know there is medicine in Gilead and doctors?  We just need an answer to the last question.

http://www.change.org/petitions/gilead-sciences-please-collaborate-with-bristol-myers-for-the-cure-for-hepatitis-c-now

Keep signing & sharing!

Warmest regards to you all.

[fretboard]

Yep, let's get more signatures it's crunch time fellow heppers and supporters!!.  Please open and sign the link and then send it off to all your friends and or family to do the same!!.  Thank you, bump bump!!

http://www.change.org/petitions/gilead-sciences-please-collaborate-with-bristol-myers-for-the-cure-for-hepatitis-c-now

[mdudley]

We need to really keep up the momentum with this petition.  If a petition targeting Dominoes Pizza to "Stop Pigs from Suffering" can get over 100,000 signatures, I know that we can, too!  I have now "officially" taken over the petition site (OMG..!!!) and am working in every way that I can think of to get more people to sign.  I have even managed to get a local TV news interview next Thursday on KENS TV (San Antonio), so wish me luck (again..OMG!!!)  The most success it seems thus far in getting people to sign has been through Facebook and emails...so keep it up.  This, again, is our opportunity to help each other so keep on keeping on!  Link to petition:

http://www.change.org/petitions/gilead-sciences-please-collaborate-with-bristol-myers-for-the-cure-for-hepatitis-c-now

Trial results for GT1 - 100%; trial results for GT2 & 3 - 91%...both WITHOUT INF/RIB (this is what we have all been praying for)


Petition update:  2847

Warmest regards to all & I truly appreciate all your help!
Margaret