2011

Appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN in NYC for a special on “30 Years of AIDS”. There will likely be increasing media events this year since this is indeed the 30th Anniversary of the recognition of AIDS. Jan. 15-16…

Town Hall meeting for non-HIV clinical trials network. Sensitive issue in that Carol Heilman still is not enthusiastic about it. However, I made it clear exactly what we are going to do.

Gave opening lecture at NTD Workshop at Natcher Building. Continue to stress Global Health.

White House communications people at it again. Last week (Mar. 11, 2011) a terrible tragedy hit Japan with a 9.0 scale earthquake in the NE part of the country almost immediately followed by perhaps the worst tsunami in…

Was invited by the Bush family to a Kennedy Center event which was “The Points of Light Institute TRIBUTE – All together Now – A Celebration of Service”. Bush 41 sent me a hand-written note thanking me for my meager…

Appeared on the Colbert Report. Great success! Had a great time and received hundreds of e-mails and calls and personal mention of how good the performance was. Reason for the appearance was the approaching 30th…

Gave World Health Day remarks at PAHO for Secretary Sebelius.

Dinner at Mark Dybul and Jason Claire’s home at 1340 Wallach Place, N.W. with Tom Sietsema (Washington Post Food Critic), Zeke Emanuel, Chris, etc.

Gave Solomon Berson Lecture at Mt. Sinai in NYC – “30 Years of HIV/AIDS: A Personal Journey”. Got prolonged standing ovation. Will be stressing this in coming weeks as we approach June, 2011

Went to Charlottesville, VA to see Danny Hultzen pitch against Duke. He was great. 7 innings shutout.. ERA now 1.19. Sure thing for 1st Round MLB draft pick

Navy Seal Unit 6 kills Osama Bin Laden in a compound right next to a Pakistani Military base is Abbottabad. Big rift now between USA and Pakistan sine we believe they were either incompetent or knew all along where he…

Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing for the 2012 NIH budget. Really bad budget times with the feeling that we are doing really well with only a 1.9% increase from 2011 for the PB. Republicans (most Tea Party…

Big announcement of early stopping of HPTN 052, which is randomized trial among 1763 heterosexual discordant couples to see if immediate treatment with ARVs (350-550 CD4 counts) versus delayed treatment (wait until fall…

The press, scientific, public health and general public interest in the HPTV-052 results in becoming huge. I appeared on New Hour (interviewed alone by Ray Suarez) as well as NBC Today Show. Have done taped interviews…

Taped interview with the WSJ appeared today . Long and excellent interview.

My Editorial appeared in the Sunday Opinions Section of the Washington Post entitled “30 Years of AIDS”. Many people e-mailed and called about it. Again, the momentum building up about a change in paradigm to support…

Delivered lecture at NIH on “30 Years of HIV/AIDS: A personal Journey” in Masure Auditorium. It likely was the most widely attended lecture in NIH history. Julie Marquardt ()NIAID) kept track. The attendance completely…

Took Amtrak to NYC to give Commencement Address at Albert Einstein College of Medicine Commencement at Lincoln Center. Incredibly hot and sunny day in NYC and DC – up to mid-90s. Came back home to find the air…

Had my BSC review for LIR. Rating was “Outstanding” all around.

Much activist activity brewing regarding the upcoming UN Special Session on AIDS this week. Funding countries are refusing to commit to putting up the resources to get 13 to 15 million people on treatment by 2015. On…

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During a trip to NYC to give a lecture at Columbia on “30 years of HIV/AIDS: A Personal Journey”, Ian Lipkin arranged a closed pre-screening of the new movie :Contagion” at the Warner Brothers headquarters in NYC. Ian…

Unusual experience – 5.9 Richter Scale earthquake hit Mineral, VA with severe shaking of Building 31 such that some of my plaques fell off of the shelves. Shock was felt as far North at Cape Cod. Jenny, Ali and Denise…

10th Anniversary of “9/11”. Much commemoration going on in NYC and DC. Of note last week on Sept. 9 went to meeting in White House EEOB 530 with Eric Goosby, Gayle Smith and David Lane, Jeff Crowley and Dana DeRuiter…

Met again in WH Situation Room with Denis McDonough chairing and the same people there with Tom Frieden by videoconference. Continued discussion about “Blue Sky”. I again vigorously defended the concept of our golden…

Met again at the WH (EEOB 439) with the usual cast of characters. Gayle Smith chaired the meeting. Denis McDonough not there. Main issues again is the reluctance of USAID (Ariel) to buy into the idea of expanding…

Raj Shah (Administrator of USAID) called me at 1:30 PM to get a better feel of my position on treatment as prevention. I thought that he would have a problem with it, but he was really asking if it was better to target…

Conference call with Eric, Ariel, me, Charles Holman and various people from USAID, PEPFAR, and CDC (Tom Frieden) trying to hash out the difference between Eric/me/Tom and USAID. It appears (maybe) that we have…

Another WH (EEOB 430A) meeting regarding above topic. Chaired by Gayle Smith. Also there was Amy Batson (USAID), Lois Quam, and Tom Frieden by phone. Cold crisp day in DC. Fall is here! Again the tension between USAID…

Dinner with Rick Klausner at Matisse Restaurant on Wisconsin Avenue and Fessenden. Discuss the Qatar initiative, see above and below. But, conversation turned to Raj Shah and the PEPFAR/USAID story. Bottom line is that…

7:30 AM Get call from Rick Klausner who is having breakfast with Raj Shah and Rick wants to set up teleconference with the 3 of us at 11:00 AM to discuss the above issues. On the call Raj dances around a bit, but what…

Incredible day. Theme is my trying to hold together the evolving proposal to scale up combination prevention with treatment as prevention (TAP) being a major component of the scale-up as described above. Tension is…

I cancelled most of my AM calendar to attend meeting at 8:00 AM in Eric’s OGAC (Office of Global AIDS Coordinator) office at 2100 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W. (suite 200). At meeting was the 4 of us. After about 90 minutes I…

Full court press in preparing for Clinton visit and speech. Again, I get call from Raj Shah wanting me to support his “doing things differently”. I believe that he really does not fully understand what PEPFAR is trying…

Beautiful, crisp, sunny Fall day! Fabulous event with Clinton visit. Francis and I greeted her at the South entrance of the NIH Clinical Center. Also waiting in background was Harold Varmus and Nora Volkow. Warm and…

Still no information on why the WH ordered me to recall my Op-Ed. Have e-mailed Gayle Smith (NSS). I will explain situation to her tomorrow and see if she has any insight. Meeting did not occur at 8:30 AM because of…

I call Eric and Tom and explain situation with Raj. I convince them to give it one more try. Both are extremely skeptical, impatient and wary of Raj. However, I indicate that we must ask Raj to be very specific in what…

At the invitation of Alan Murray (Senior Editor of Wall Street Journal) I spoke at the Wall Street Journal-sponsored CEO Council event at The Four Seasons in Georgetown. My purpose was to convince the CEOs to get…

Gave Keynote Address at the Caribbean AIDS Conference in The Bahamas. The Atlantis Hotel is surrealistic. Nov. 21 – 30, 2011 – Spent hours on the phone trying to address the ADAP waiting list since we (HHS/PEPFAR) felt…