Thursday, August 1, 2002

Met at the White House with Gary Edson, Jay Lefkowitz, and Margaret La Montagne Spellings to present the Dybul/Fauci plan for comprehensive treatment and prevention of HIV in African countries. This was in response to the original request by Josh Bolten and then the specific request by Gary Edson to put together a plan based on the ”Mugyenyi Model ” of Uganda (see July 17 above). Also present at the meeting was Terrell Halaska, Joe O’Neill, Mark Dybul, and Allen Gilbert. Gary, Jay and Margaret was extremely pleased and excited about the plan. They mentioned that we had done a ”fabulous” job. They asked us to respond to about 5-6 questions in writing. Clearly they are going to run it by the President when he returns from his August vacation in Crawford, Texas. He may well want to make this a Presidential initiative similar to the MTCT proposal that we had put together for him.