Another opposition group, Action Aid, has been organizing grass-roots support in Brazilian farming regions to rouse consumer sentiment against legalization.
In addition, the Task Force will help mobilize teams that can respond to requests for technical assistance from countries, and be deployed at short notice to XDR-TB risk areas.
According to Benedicte Christensen, of the Africa department of the IMF, there have been fewer requests for help from sub-Saharan Africa than there were the last time oil prices soared.
Sinclair's San Francisco-based organization received 400 requests for help the day after the Haiti quake but he said it had yet to receive a single request for help for Chile.