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> << File: AIDS Vaccine Enterprise-PAVE.ppt >> > > -----Original Message----- >From: Rick Klausner @gatesfoundation.org] >Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 3:49 PM >To: Anthony Fauci (E-mail) >Subject: PAVE - please clarify > >I just came back from speaking at the HVTN and there, as anywhere I go >and HIV vaccines are discussed, I am asked about PAVE. Particularly now >that PAVE seems to be setting up the same committees the Enterprise >agreed to set up and asking some of the same people. I don't know what >to tell people, especially since, in marked contrast to the Enterprise, >the Gates Foundation has never been talked to about this (none of us). >So I talk about how well we are working together, etc etc but everyone >I speak to (I never bring it up) seems confused. I am sure that PAVE >pre-dated our meetings in the Spring of 2002 about an enterprise >approach but we really need to know how to respond about this. >You can hear my frustration in this email. Am I mis-reading this? I >have not run into anyone who is not "confused".