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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery

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To: RealMuLan who wrote (220)8/9/2003 3:36:09 PM
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Clock is ticking; will China move to halt AIDS?

By Loretta McLaughlin, 8/9/2003

HINA DESERVES great credit for its successful campaign against SARS, the severe acute respiratory syndrome that turned up early this year. Within months thousands were infected, partly because of China's attempt -- at first -- to keep news of the often deadly airborne disease secret, thereby allowing the infection to seed in and be transported out. But China has a monumentally more menacing disease infecting its vast population and would do well to heed its own recent lesson, learned the hard way from its bitter experience with SARS.

Few appreciate how fully China could succeed in combating the far more lethal HIV, even as this virus is moving beyond target groups of drug abusers and sex workers and is infiltrating every major city, according to Dr. Yichen Lu of the Harvard AIDS Institute.

China has the medical and pharmaceutical means, manpower, and social discipline to win its battle against HIV. Otherwise, states a joint report by the Chinese Ministry of Health and the United Nations, the potential remains for an onslaught so severe it is viewed as ''China's Titanic Peril.''
boston.com
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