FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Wednesday, June 17, 2015
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2015-06-17

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DIARY ENTRY — Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 459 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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I gave a talk at the HPTN/IMPAACT meeting at the Crystal Gateway
Marriott Hotel on Jefferson Davis Hwy. in Crystal City, Virginia. This was an important
talk because I introduced to the investigators the difficulty that we are having now with
certain members of Congress wanting to decrease the AIDS budget and even move
money out of the AIDS bucket into other institutes. I showed the audience a C-SPAN clip
of my debating with Senator Cassidy (R-Tea Party) from Louisiana where he was talking
about matching allocation of funds with the number of disability adjusted life years
(DALYs) in this country. If this approach were followed, it would have a serious negative
impact on all global health research, particularly research on infectious diseases. I
articulated well my objection to this. Some people have picked this up and put it on
YouTube, and the clip has gone viral. In addition, I spoke to the group about future
directions of focusing the AIDS research specifically on ending the epidemic so that
ultimately we will not have to spend any money on AIDS. This would be an important
public health accomplishment, and it would silence the people who want to take money
from AIDS prematurely before we have ended the AIDS epidemic.

Tonight, I flew to Atlanta to participate in the Charles C Shepard Science Award
Ceremony in Atlanta at the CDC headquarters.