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Problems with the Coke’s Initiative

10 - 14 - 2002

 

- No medical care for family members other than employees and their spouses

- Out-of-pocket costs for workers for the purchase of medicines will prove to be an unsurmountable barrier to access for most of them

- No commitment to using the least costly medicines( generics instead of brand-name drugs)

- No promise to sustain the initiative over the long-term and thus uphold continuity of a coherent program for sick people

- An unreliable cost-sharing scheme between Coca-Cola and its affiliates(in particular the smallest, which employ 64% of Coca-Cola’s workforce)

- No clear commitment to a rapid roll-out of programs of access to medicines

- No plan to expand the initiative outside Africa (yet people in many countries outside the African continent are heavily impacted by AIDS, such as those living in India, China etc...)

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