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[quote=MARRIE,299093]Gates said the foundation worked closely with the China's Health Ministry on its programs.

"On some, like the AIDS thing, they were very welcoming, and it's good collaboration," he said. "It will vary by topic how much you get government cooperation on those things."

Peter Piot, executive director of the UNAIDS, a joint United Nations program, said the Gates Foundation is making the right choice to intervene early.

"One of the lessons of the AIDS epidemic has been anything can happen," he said. "With the incredible transformation of China as a country, as a society — changes in sexual behavior, rampant prostitution in many places. ... We have epidemics in men who have sex with men in about every Chinese city we've looked at."

In Africa, many of the countries where the epidemic is worse by proportion are small nations. Botswana, with one of the highest HIV rates in the world, has a population of only 1.6 million people. That's not the case in China.

"Just imagine if we waited until 1 percent of China is infected with HIV," Gates said. "That's 1 percent of 1.3 billion people — that's 13 million."

"I think it's money well spent," he said. "It's very well targeted to where the epidemic is today."

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