FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Thursday, December 13, 2007
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2007-12-13

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DIARY ENTRY — Thursday, December 13, 2007
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 165–166 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Two issues today: Went down to White House with Mark Dybul to visit
Dan Price (new SHERPA for the upcoming G-8 meeting in July, 2008). Dan, at the
suggestion of Gary Edson, was looking for some bold initiatives for finish off the legacy
of the POTUS over the next 11-12 months. Gary mentioned to Dan how I had developed
the PEPFAR program. We discussed various options. I brought up several such as
elimination of TB and malaria, and aggressively addressing neglected tropical diseases
(NTDs). Mark had the great idea of using the PEPFAR infrastructure that has been built
up over the past 4 years to deliver the meds for NTDs. The bulk of the costs for attacking
NTDs is the delivery systems since the drugs are free (ivermectim) or very cheap. In
addition, Mark suggested major tax breaks for private sector corporations that donate
their expertise such as computer programming, etc. Mark and I were charged with
putting together a proposal. This matches nicely with what HHS, NSC, and HSC are
asking me to do with putting a bold program together for TB together with CDC, FDA,
USAID, and DHS. After talking to Dan, we walked over to Josh Bolten’s office and
described briefly the plan to him. He likes it a lot and urged us to go forward. Seems
strikingly similar situation to what we did with PEPFAR 5 years ago.
  This evening I went to the Christmas Party at the Vice President’s mansion. Chris is in
Boston having given a lecture and ran into a big snow storm. She is stranded in Boston
and will have to take a train home that will get her in during the middle of the night. I
took Ali to the VP party and she had an exciting time meeting the VP and such notables
as David Addington (Chief-of-Staff to the VP), Joel Bagnol (HSC), Bruce Miller (VP’s
Staff, Carol Kuntz, etc.

Dec. 14 – 19, 2007 – Series of the usual (now becoming enjoyable since I remember
names after seeing them so often) holiday parties, mostly centered around NCS/STA.
Weather unusually mild. Looking forward to Jenny and Megan coming home