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Nov. 27, 2012 - I present the C. Everett Koop HIV/AIDS Public Health Leadership Award to Rep. Henry Waxman at the Mayflower Hotel. The award is given by the Forum for HIV/AIDS chaired by Veronica Miller. I gave a nice laudation with slides praising Henry who has become an old "warrior" friend of mine over the years. I have testified before Committees that he either chaired or was minority about 25 times over the past 28 years. He was very appreciative of my presentation.
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Nov. 29, 2012 - Big day today. It was the official celebration of World AIDS Day (WAD) and there was a celebration at the State Department from 10:30 to 11:30 AM. Hillary Clinton unveiled the "Blueprint" for PEPFAR to end the AIDS Pandemic. It took place in the Franklin Room of the State department. She called me out from the audience and thanked me for being the scientific leader that got us to where we are. Beautiful chilly Fall day with bright sun. After the State event, went to the White House to celebrate WAD. Program of several speakers. I was the final speaker giving a talk about the scientific basis of being able to end the AIDS pandemic. Extremely well-received. Other speakers include: Valeria Jarrett; Michel Sidebe; Eric Goosby; Sec. Sebelius; a panel chaired by Rosie Perez.
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Nov. 30, 2012 - Viewed a screening at the State Department of the acclaimed movie "How to Survive a Plague" about the HIV activist movement. Host was the director of the movie, David France. After the movie I was on a panel with Mark Harrington and 2 others to discuss the movie and answer questions from David France who moderated and from the audience. Went very well. Have seen the movie before, but it still brings me to tears. I was seen several times in the movie looking extremely young from the 1980s. Also, very poignant features of Peter Staley, Mark Harrington, David Barr, Spencer Cox, Jim Eigo, Larry Kramer and many others from "the old days". In the afternoon I taped a World AIDS Day segment that showed that evening on the PBS NewsHour hosted by Ray Suarez. I thought that it was one of the best segments that I have done .
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December 1, 2012 - had dinner over Mark Dybul's home on Wallach Place in northwest DC together with Chris Grady, Jason Claire, Kristen Silverberg (former assistant to President George W. Bush and an old friend of mine from that administration (see above (2002) and her husband, and other guests. We celebrated the appointment of Mark to be the executive director of the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
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Anthony S. Fauci
December 3, 2012 - had a town hall meeting with the Vaccine Research Center principal investigators and other staff to reassure them that they have nothing to worry about related to the departure of Gary Nabel to Boston to work at Sanofi. Gary left the VRC solely because his wife Betsy Nabel took the job 3 years ago as President of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Gary has been commuting ever since to be with her on weekends and it is wearing him out. Unfortunately, Gary is leaving the best job in the world at the VRC and he has done a spectacular job. He is clearly damaging his scientific trajectory of his career by making this move. I told them (the VRC PIs) that I was extremely satisfied with the performance of the VRC and would do everything in my power to maintain the momentum and culture of the VRC. I would not hire someone to replace Gary that would possibly damage this culture.
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December 4, 2012 - That evening had a senior staff dinner in which I discussed my desire to tighten up the work ethic of the front office. The work load is being disproportionately falling on me, and particularly Greg Folkers who is killing himself trying to polish up the sometimes sloppy work of others, particularly David Morens, who is a good guy, but will have to be let go. We met at Positano's restaurant in Bethesda (Fairmont Avenue) with Cliff Lane, Hugh Auchincloss, and JJ McGowan. Good discussion.
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December 7, 2012 - went to dinner at the home of Connie Milstein on 3210 - R Street, N.W. in Georgetown. Connie is the owner of the Jefferson Hotel in Washington DC. The occasion of the event was a fund raiser for the organization called Key to the Cure 2012. This is an organization aimed at curing epilepsy. It is run by Susan and David Axelrod who have a child with epilepsy. It was an extraordinary evening with all the glitterati of Washington DC at the meeting including a visit from VP Joe Biden. I had the opportunity to chat a bit with the vice president and discuss our work with HIV-AIDS. He clearly knew who I was since I have met him several times when he was in the Senate and he was present at the East Room ceremony when I received the presidential Medal of Freedom. In addition there were number of other known media and political stars including Alex Castellanos, the Republican Strategist. The joke of the evening is that David Axelrod had just shaved off his mustache to raise money for the CURE. He had been joking on TV Sunday Talk Shows that he would shave off his mustache is Obama lost the election. Obviously, Obama won, but now David shaved it off for a cause. Alex Castellanos now promised to shave off his moustache to raise money for the CURE.
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December 8, 2012 - Saturday morning spent an hour on C-SPAN television (National Journal) in Washington DC (400 North Capitol Street) discussing seasonal flu and other infectious disease issues. I was on the show with my friend Tom Frieden, Director of the CDC.
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December 11, 2012 - engaged in a National Academy of Sciences Symposium in Washington DC at the Keck Building on 5th St., NW to discuss emerging infectious diseases and the 20th anniversary of the 1992 IOM report on emerging infectious diseases. Later in the day I gave a talk at the treatment action group (TAG) event run by Mark Harrington at the Fairfax Embassy Row Hotel on Massachusetts Avenue in DC. The subject of the meeting was ending the HIV pandemic in the United States. This meeting was put together in order to emphasize that we have a significant problem in the United States even at the same time as we are making enormous progress globally with having the end of the AIDS pandemic globally in sight, which was the topic of the Internal AIDS meeting in DC in July (see above) and the recent World AIDS Day events at the White House and the State Department.