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intended for sale outside the United States, a maneuver that would almost certainly eliminate the risk of being sued for U.S. patent infringement. None of this is to deny that the Bush administration panders to the religious right on some issues, or that it's cozy with pharmaceutical lobbyists. After misrepresentations on issues from tax policy to Iraq intelligence, the suspicion with which Team Bush is greeted is partly of its own making. And of course some criticisms of the administration's AIDS program remain fair, notably that it shortchanges multilateral efforts against the killer. And yet the bottom line on the Bush administration's AIDS initiative is that it is huge and serious. The AIDS activists at last week's conference, whose motives are doubtless honorable as well, would do better to redirect their heckling to countries such as Japan and South Korea, which give shockingly little to their cause. When you're fighting an enemy that takes 8,000 lives a day, it pays to pick your targets wisely. mallabys@washpost.com July 19, 2004 - Appeared on the Jim Lehr Newshour defending the USA position on PEPFAR. Steve Lewis from the UN was my "opponent" and we duked it out over the bilateral approach of PEPFAR versus the multilateral approach of the Global Fund. I said both are good and working. He feels that the USA should put all of its money into the Global Fund. He also did not understand the need to have some sort of approval for generic copy drugs (see above). Everyone told me that I appeared cool and collected while Steve was shrill. July 21, 2004 - Two visits to WH today. The POTUS invited me to be at the signing ceremony for the BioShield Legislation in the Rose garden. I was asked to go up on the stage for the photo with the POTUS and the VP as well as Tom Ridge, Congressmen Chris Cox and Waxman, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Senators Ted Kennedy, Bill Frist among others. Michael Allen of WH Legislative Affairs was my advocate to get me on the platform. The White House protocol women (?name) wanted Julie Gerberding on the platform (even though she had nothing at all to do with BioShield) since there were no women there and she bumped me. Michael insisted and they compromised by putting us both up there. The POTUS, VP and Senators were very nice with me. I now know all of these people very well. In the afternoon, I briefed Carol Kuntz. Ernie Takafuji accompanied me. Carol is great, but she is going through one of her periodic periods of sadness and anxiety about her CML even though she is in a crisp remission on Gleevec. I intermittently give her private psychotherapy and I did so that night. July 22, 2004 - Testified with Secretary Thompson and Julie Gerberding to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) on Public Health preparedness, surge capacity and medical countermeasures. Present were Chairman Judd Gregg, Ted Kennedy and Lamar Alexander. It was a very friendly hearing and very complimentary to me and the others.