Five million adults are carrying the AIDS virus in South Africa, making it the most infected country on earth. However only a fraction of these people can access essential treatment because the multinational pharmaceutical companies are keeping the prices of their drugs artificially high. Please sign our petition demanding that GlaxoSmithKline puts lives before profits at We need your help to get as many signatures for our petition as possible. If you can, we would be very grateful if you could include the message below as part of your email signature or send it on to family and friends: 'Every day, 1000 people in South Africa die of HIV/AIDS because they cannot afford treatment. Sign ACTSA’s petition now (http://www.actsa.org/action.htm [5]) to stop GlaxoSmithKline, the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, from putting profits before lives.'