FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Wednesday, February 6, 2008
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2008-02-06

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DIARY ENTRY — Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 168–170 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Had lunch at café Milano with Franco Nuschese (Owner of Café Milano)
to discuss an issue with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He would like to bring the
health minister to the USA and have me show him around the NIH. Also, he wants me to
go to UAE and help them with advice about research programs, i.e. establish an NIH-like
system in UAE. Franco knows the Middle east well since he has many contacts there and
want to help the country develop their biomedical research enterprise. He will arrange
appropriate meetings.

Feb 8-9, 2008 – Flew to San Francisco and took “red-eye” back to give the Merle Sande
memorial Lecture at the Gladstone Institute at SF General Hospital (Mission Bay
Campus). Warner Greene (Director, Gladstone) and Tom Quinn arranged the visit. I
gave a lecture of “HIV/AIDS in 2008” and paid tribute to merle. Told some stories about
our friendship and experiences on the NY Hospital House Staff together where he was

situation in Washington, D.C. re: HIV/AIDS. He was shocked at the numbers – DC is
9X the national average for prevalence; 5% of the entire DC population is infected.

Feb. 20-21, 2008 – Went to University of Chicago to deliver interdisciplinary lecture on
HIV/AIDS. Had dinner with Megan at Volare restaurant. Went over very well and then
flew early on AM of 21 Feb to DC to go directly to the White House for meeting with
Dan Price, Gary Edson, Mark Dybul, Patrick Marcham, Paul Brown, Tim Ziemer to
discuss malaria, TB, health care workers and other initiative. I am pushing for the
tripling of resources ($20 M to $60 M) for TB vaccine research.
   We had a big week with the POTUS visit to Africa and receiving great praise and
affection for the PEPFAR and PMI programs. POTUS announced a $350 M, 5 year
program on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) to include attempt to eradicate in 300
million people in certain African , Asian and Latin American countries – Lymphatic
filariasis, Onchocerciasis, Schistosomiasis, trachoma and ground worms (whipworm,
hookworm, and roundworm). This is the same program that Gary Edson and I proposed
3 years ago and so our prior work has belatedly come to fruition. Great news!