Gates Foundation Announces 3rd Initiative in China.

China's hosting of the TB meeting shows that the Communist government has learned from past global-health debacles, such as its failure to acknowledge the AIDS threat and attempts to deny the existence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus, said Stephen Morrison, director of the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

"They see TB as a threat, they see it as a burden on their economy and something the citizens of China are upset about," he said.

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