Friday, August 16, 2002

Went back to White House to present the revised Global AIDS Plan to Gary Edson. Also present were Terrell Halaska, Mark Dybul and Joe O’Neill, Director of Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP). Gary again liked the revised plan and liked how we answered the questions that he and Margaret Spellings posed to us at the last meeting concerning: a) impact on Domestic AIDS issues; b) development of a sharp sound bite for the State of the Union Address in case it comes to that; c) relationship to Global AIDS Trust Fund; d) Inclusion of Russia, India, and China; e) reason why the Gates/Merck/Harvard/Univ of Penn initiative in Botswana has failed; f) administrative structure of the program. He asked me to revise the document by tightening it up to an Exec Summary, 5 pages of text and a group of tables. He wants us present it to Josh Bolten when Josh gets back from vacation next week. Mark and I can quickly make this revision.