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cent AIDS stories. March 6, 2014 - Much, much media today surrounding a NEJM paper on CCR5 (see above - Carl June's paper) as well as a second baby who might be cured as well as monkey studies on long-acting PreP (David Ho). I was on WTOP; ABC Morning News (bumped because of Ukraine-Russia crisis, but likely will be shown this weekend); NewsHour with Jeff Green; NPR- All Things Considered - Audie Cornish; Al Jazeera; VOA; tomorrow we do MSNBC and NPR Science Friday with Ira Flatow. Also, multiple printed press including NY Times. March 7, 2014 - The Dalai Lama visited NUH and I went to hear him speak at the Natcher Auditorium. I could barely understand what he was saying due to his strong accent and bad acoustics. However, he won everyone over with his smile and infectious laugh. March 10, 2014 - Appeared on NPR "On Point" talking about the recent AIDS stories. (see above). March 13, 2014 - Salim ("Slim") Abdool Karim visited from Sotuh Afrtica at my invitation to deliver the John la Montagne Lecture in the Lipsett Auditorium. Slim had take the job as the Director of the South Africa MRC to essentially shake up the place and fire a bunch of dea wood. He took the job on a contingency that he would leave is 2 years. He has done a great job of "cleaning up". He will be replaced by another friend, i.e. Glenda Gray. March 14, 2014 - Spoke with Rick Atkinson today to update him on the progress of my memoirs and to ask his advice about whether I should engage Bob Barnett for advice about the legality of my writing my memoirs while I am a USG worker. Recall that Bob Barnett has offered to be my agent when I write my book. He offered to do this years ago. March 20, 2014 - Received horrible news tonight at around 9:30 PM from Howard Boltansky who called my cell phone. My dear friend and physician for 16 years, David Jacobs died suddenly in Las Vegas today where he was with his brother to watch the NCAA Tournament (March Madness). David had shown me an MRI of his abdomen. About 6 years ago he was struck by a car while running his daily run down by the Mall. He got badly bruised up, but there was no concussion and so other 'apparent" injuries exception getting banged up badly. About 6 months later on a routine medical examination and MRI, they found a major tear the length of the aorta with clotted blood stably keeping everything in place. Amazingly, his renal vessels and femoral arteries were being perfused, but the tear and clot was extensive. Clearly, this happened at the time of the accident. He had gone to several vascular surgical consultants who told him that this was not repairable and that if they attempted to repair it, he had a very high likelihood of dying on the OR table. They told him that he could live 30 years or he could die suddenly at any time. No way to predict and so he has lived with this hanging over him. In my conversations with his, he was always in good spirits and seemed to accept the risk. Unfortunately, this has happened. I am terribly saddened. I loved David and he took such good care of me. I had trained him when he was an NIAID