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Date:4/17/2009

able us to better plan distribution of products, leading to the creation of sustainable national hemophilia care programs that are a vital part of the public health care system. We are grateful to our industry partners such as CSL Behring, who provide, among other resources, valuable and life-saving medicine, including this most recent donation of coagulation factor. We are very pleased to announce it on World Hemophilia Day 2009."

Factor VIII is an essential blood clotting factor. FVIII is concentrated from donated blood or is manufactured using recombinant technology, and can be given to hemophiliacs to restore hemostasis.

About the Global Alliance for Progress
The Global Alliance for Progress (GAP) a 10-year healthcare development project, launched in April 2003. GAP's goal is to greatly increase the diagnosis and treatment of people with hemophilia and other bleeding disorders in developing countries.

The project aims to close the gap between the number of people born with hemophilia and those who reach adulthood, the gap between the estimated and actual number of people diagnosed with bleeding disorders, and the gap between the amount of treatment product needed versus what is available.

GAP partners include CSL Behring, Baxter, Bayer, Biotest, the Irish Hemophilia Society, the Jan Willem André de la Porte Family Foundation, Talecris, the World Health Organization (WHO), and Wyeth.

Fifteen countries have participated in GAP: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ecuador, Egypt, Georgia, Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, Syria, Thailand, and Tunisia. A GAP project in China has just been launched.

About the World Federation of Hemophilia
The World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with hemophilia and related bleeding disorders.

Since it was established in 1963, the WFH has grown into a
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