Thursday, May 23, 2002

For the past 2 weeks, Mark Dybul, Terrell Halaska and I have been working on a proposal for prevention of mother-to-child-transmission (MCTC) in developing nations to present to president Bush who wants to use this as an announcement of a major initiative at the G-8 Conference this summer in Ottawa. Terrell asked me to put it together for her and I enlisted Mark Dybul who did a great job with me. I and Terrell had several pre-meetings at the White House Conference Center on Jackson Place during early May and then today Mark, Terrell and I met with Gary Edson and Jay Lefkowitz of the WH. To present our plan to save 146,000 babies from being infected per year for a cost of about $100,000,000 per year. Gary and Jay loved the plan and will present it to the President within a couple of days. It was a great meeting and they were very impressed at how we organized the data and the presentation.