Meeting report: Tuberculosis research in China; a historic meeting; China–Japan–US Tuberculosis International Seminar and US–Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program 42nd Tuberculosis and Leprosy Research Conference, 2007

Abstract

The historic meeting and an understanding of the extent of tuberculosis (TB) and research on TB was accomplished at a meeting held in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China, from September 11th to 14th, 2007. Thirty-three Japanese, 24 American, 48 Chinese and delegates from three other countries participated during the 4-day meeting. The annual US–Japan TB and Leprosy Panel Conference, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health (USA) and the US–Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program, is focused on TB and leprosy research and in previous years has been held alternately in the USA and Japan. This was the first time, since the inception of the program in 1965, that the US–Japan TB and Leprosy Panels held its annual meeting in a third country. Due to many TB and AIDS patients in the Henan Province, the Henan Provincial Health Bureau was eager to hold the meeting in the provincial capital of Zhengzhou. The first day of the meeting included a 1-day seminar, the China–Japan–USA TB International Seminar, that provided valuable information to American and