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ul play. Many July 3, 2012 - Saw "Normal Heart" again at Arena Stage. Wonderful play. Many people in audience recognized me and thanked me for my work. July 9-18, 2012 - Went to Martha's Vineyard (MV) for the "Big" meeting of the editorial Board of HPIM-19 with the McGraw-Hill people. Great meeting, great weather. Chris and Megan came for 2 days on July 14-15. Went sailing with Dennis Kasper on his boat on July 14. Great time. Democratic National Committee also has meeting on island. Met and chatted a few times with Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH). Good guy. I know him for years. Left 1 day early. July 18, 2012. Good that I did since at the airport at MV I got a call from CNN that Wolf Blitzer wanted me on the show tonight to discuss the FDA approval of Trivia as Prep I accepted and had a scare since the plane took off late from MV and then circled DCA for 25 minutes before landing. I had intended to go home and change first from my casual clothes to TV clothes. However, there was no time and CNN send limo to airport to pick me up and go directly to CNN studio for the live shot. Had just a few minutes to change into shirt and tie. All went well. Also did WTOP News, local Channel 9 TV, and ABC radio. Looking forward to IAS meeting in DC this coming week. July 20 - 28, 2012 - Most amazing week leading up to and during the XIX International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference. 25,000 people attended (largest AIDS meeting in history). I am including as an attachment my schedule for this week and I will comment below on some salient issues. ASF DC 2012 FINAL Schedule - July 27.do Truly amazing. The theme of the meeting was "Turning the Tide Together". I Delivered the Opening Scientific Plenary Lecture on Monday, July 23, the morning after the Opening ceremony (see below). My talk was entitled: "Ending the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: From Scientific Advances to Public Health Implementation". The DC Convention Center main lecture hall was packed with approximately 10,000 people. It was one of the best Plenary Lectures that I have ever given and I have spoken as a main speaker at every one of the 19 IAS meetings. The number of kudos I got regarding my talk was incredible. The amount of press coverage of the event was astounding. Jon Cohen did a feature on me in Science that came out right before the meeting started and everyone was talking about it. It was a story he wrote after spending an entire day with me at NIH. In addition, there were several articles that I wrote (usually with Greg Folkers) that came out right before or during the meeting such as a piece in Health Affairs, JAMA, JAIDS, etc. In a separate piece in Health Affairs, John Donnelly wrote a history of PEPFAR and described my involvement. He also interviewed Mark Dybul and Mark made it seem that he played a greater role at the White House level than he really did although Mark's role behind the scene was incredibly important during the creation of the blueprint for PEPFAR. But, who cares? It was a good article although Gary Edson got pissed off at it when he saw it since he knows exactly how PEPFAR