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Dec. 1, 2010 - World AIDS Day - Gave presentation at The White House and participated in panel led by Eric Goosby together with Chris Collins, Ada Adamora, Jennifer Cates. My thene was 1) Optimizations of Therapy; 2) Go for a cure; and 3) Maximize prevention.
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Dec. 1, 2010 through Jan. 19, 2011 - In general, nothing overwhelming. Economy recovering; still strident partisanship in Washington, D.C. Health care reform passed, and no Republicans voted for it - amazing. NIH budget looking bad. 'er 1 "30 or, BC on
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Dec. 8, 2010 - Science Management Review Board (SMRB) of NIH (of which I am a member) has been and continues to discuss Francis Collins' intention of merging NIDA and NIAAA, dissolving NCRR, as well as and more importantly creating a National Center for the Advancement of Translational Science (NCATS) at NIH to include the CTSAs and CAN RAID TRND and Molecular libraries. Francis is dead set on starting a new center and is using the SMRB to endorse it. I have made it clear that I do not think that this is a good idea since it is redundant (nothing broke). Also, bad idea at a time of flat, if not decreasing, NIH budget.
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Dec. 9, 2010 - Major breakthrough in NIH prevention with the results of the PrEP study (iPrex) showing that daily Truvada to uninfected MSM decrease acquisition of HIV infection by 44% and in those who take the meds every day, it decreases acquisition by 90%. I did much media on this
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Dec. 13, 2010 - Major outbreak of Cholera in Haiti. Traced to contaminant of a river (used for drinking and washing in rural part of Haiti) by UN Nepalese soldier with asymptomatic cholera. I appear of Diane Rehm show discussing cholera.
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Dec. 17, 2010 - I deliver the Walter Dzau lecture at Brigham and Women's Hospital (invited by Paul Farmer) on "30 Years of HIV/AIDS: A Personal Journey". Overwhelming hit with prolonged applause. I spoke of my involvement from first day and told the story of the "Birth of PEPFAR".
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Jan. 14, 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.
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Jan. 15-16, 2011 - Was Keynote Speaker at a Keystone Meeting in Vancouver, BC on Tuberculosis. Large (~800) audience, mostly post-docs. Very well received.
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Feb. 15-16, 2011 - Went to San Juan to deliver the Opening Keynote at the NIAID/CDC/PAHO-sponsored Dengue Symposium. Great time. In accordance with my expanding to more emphasis on Global Health and Emerging Diseases.