Leighton Chan

… eting attended by….. Bill Steiger charged with developing paper. April 8 – 10, 2001 – I exchanged several drafts of white paper with Steiger and make significant changes and input. It was clear that much of the paper included material from my talking points for Thompson …

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… roven strategy that is cost-effective. Individual and government accountability, behavior change and abstinence-based approaches that are culturally appropriate must be part of prevention efforts. We have found that working with local organizations, such as missionary h …

… S, but also with regard to heath care in Africa in general. I believe that this trip will change me dramatically towards a direction that I have already been heading for the past couple of years. This direction is towards a greater effort and interest on my part in glob …

… Africa, I spent about 1 ½ hours at dinner trying to convince her to help President Mbeki change his stance on treatment of HIV- infected people including pregnant women (see above). Of note, just this week the South African government has made a major change in their s …

… nted to know if this were true. In addition, Sue told me that Sen. Frist had said that he changed his mind and decided not to support the Global AIDS Fund because he had heard that I was against it. I believe that if this is true about Frist, then he is covering his ass …

… a Press Briefing during which I sat next to the President, the Press asked about needle exchange. Tommy G. Thompson (TGT) was not briefed on this issue and I told him briefly that we (Fauci, Jeff Koplan of CDC, David Satcher – Surgeon General, Alan Leschner – Director N …

… ention intervention, i.e. condom distribution versus sex worker education versus needle exchange versus family counseling. The point is that they feel that the request might be too much for the 5 years (Total = $9.987 billion over 5 years, including up to $1.0 billion f …

… nt. Fauci on biodefense 8-9-02.doc Oct. 30 – Nov. 1 – Multiple conversations and e-mail exchanges with Gary Edson regarding the AIDS Project (see above). I believe that finally we are getting this straight. Historically (see above), every time that we try to calculate t …

… hey not take the vaccine unless they feel very strongly that they do not want to take any chances. This is different from the situation with the anthrax vaccine where the DHHS said that had no recommendation either way; they just made the vaccine available if people wan …

… ug Badger called wanting to know why we needed a vaccine trust fund as opposed to other mechanisms to guarantee purchase of vaccines. This is what Bill Raub presented to the VP (see above); however, they are asking me about it because of “my credibility” (according to C …

… t 3400 with 175 deaths. Much media interest. For example, on April 17 alone I appeared on Channel 5 News, Diane Rehm Show, Charley Rose, CNN’s Aaron Brown, and CNN International in addition to several print media.

… grets to the POTUS. Jay responded by e-mail that since I was the honored guest, they will change the ceremony to May 27. Amazing! May 20 – 27, 2003 – Busy time for Bioshield and giving Commencement Addresses (Emory, Albany Medical, Univ. of MD and SUNY Downstate) and re …

… ive year renewal. of having the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) serve as a mechanism to provide a “culture of responsibility” among scientists similar to what was done in the mid-1970s. At the briefing was the usual people – Gen Gordon, Ken Bernard, Richard …

… airobi airport, Chris slowed down for about 15 minutes to “cool” the engine ( to decrease chance of hear-seeking missiles) and then dove sharply to the landing field. All went well. Kenya (Dec 3-4). In Kenya, we went to a rather boring Global Coalition Event and then ha …

… , Adm Van der Wagner (USPHS). We landed in Marka Airfield in Amman and almost immediately changed planes to an Air Force C-130 to Baghdad. This would turn out to be one of the most memorable days of my life. In the approach to Saddam Airport we did a sharp “corkscrew” l …

… bias and I pleaded that the generics companies submit the applications and give the FDA a chance to show that they could give an expedited review. We were asking for clinical data that Medicines Sans Frontiers already has and has published, plus biochemical equivalency …

… am an articulate advocate of their cause. The meeting went very well and I finally got a chance to meet and intensively discuss with Wolfowitz.

Trip to Duke to honor retirment of Ralph Snyderman as Chancellor. White House conference call at the airport in Raleigh-Durham on way back regarding the influenza vaccine issue.

… ep leading this nation forward. Keep putting the well-being of our people first. And keep changing the status quo in search of a better way. You will always be in my prayers and in my heart. With gratitude and friendship, Tommy G. Thompson

… s and indicted the entire trial. Ed used the report from the more comprehensive audit and changed the lower level report to indicate that there were technical difficulties, but this does not change the results of the trial. Fishbein in his attempt to not get fired for i …

… Care Act originally passed in 1990. The POTUS wanted to make sure that we were not short-changing domestic AIDS in light of all of the money (PEPFAR) that we have recently been putting into international. Briefing from 9:20 AM to 10:05 AM. The POTUS walked into room an …

… some money to “be somebody”. However, Barton seized on this to “be somebody” by radically changing the NIH. Zerhouni may now be left with unintended consequences of his early attempts at getting a bit more power. July 25 – 29, 2005 – One of the most extraordinary weeks …

… over the years. This is only the 3rd time that I had met McCain, but I never really had a chance to talk to him before. Had nice conversation about the books that they are writing. Ted is writing a book about his dog.

… ce), Suzy DeFrancis (Assistant Sec. for Public Affairs, DHHS), Julie Gerberding, Margaret Chan (Assistant Director general and Rep of WHO for Pandemic Influenza), H.E. Changchui (Assistant Dir.-Gen., Food and Agriculture Organization – FAO-), Alejandro Thiermann Pres. W …

… bird and/or human pandemic. Met with Deputy Prime Minister and Amb Mussomeli had a firm exchange with the Deputy Prime minister in which Joe objected to the fact that the Cambodians had arrested a Cambodian Journalist for writing a story negative to the regime. Next vis …

… kets for Chris and me. We met with Bono in the hospitality suite before the concert and exchanged warm hugs and discussions. Amazingly, in the middle of the concert in front of >25,000 people, Bono dedicated a song (“Miracle Drug”) to me. He praised me and said that I w …

… kely low. This is in contrast to others such as Rob Webster, who says that there is a 50% chance that we will have a bird flu pandemic among humans with H5N1!!! I have no idea how he came up with that number. Also, my friend Michael Osterholm is also singing doom and gl …

… , Ann Morgan Vickery and Bob Kyle of Hogan and Harston. Usual gala-like atmosphere. Has a chance to catch up with Richard Holbrooke, who is currently the President and CEO of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS. We reminisced about our trip to Africa with Tommy Th …

… ice and almost apologized for disrupting my session. They stormed on stage with the usual chanting and signs that said “George, listen to Tony” and “This is only a test!” (referring to the Orasure test). They disrupted me for the agreed-upon 2 minutes and then let me gi …

… ay before his swearing in (see above). The 2 candidates that I prefer are either Margaret Chan (Hong Kong) or Julio Frenk (Minister of Health of Mexico). Shigeru Omi from Japan, Bernard Kouchner from France (MSF), and Pascoal Mocumbi (Mozambique) are also among the cont …

… ious US officials, particularly in the Dept. of State and HHS. I was a main speaker and exchanged information with Iranians on HIV/AIDS, TB, and other diseases in Iran. It was surprisingly frank and open given the tense relations between USA and Iran surrounding the Ira …

… inisters, Melinda Gates, Faith-Based people (Rick Warren, etc.), Paul Wolfowitz, Margaret Chan (WHO DG). I had nice chats with each of these. Purpose was to increase awareness of malaria and how with little money we can dramatically reduce malaria, particularly in Afric …

… unclassified making the default position that everything should be classified. I had them change it to read that we should explain why it is not classified as opposed to justifying it as being unclassified. We came to an agreement.

… luding Africa). Even if it does not totally prevent HIV- infection, there is a reasonable chance that it will slow the progression of disease if people do get infected, and this will result in lower levels of virus in their bodies, which in turn makes transmission to ot …

… at the dinner were: me, Bill and Melinda Gates, Tachi Yamada, Regina Rabinowitz, Margaret Chan (WHO), Michel Kazatchkine (Global Fund), Brian Chituwo (MOH of Zambia), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (MOH of Ethiopia), Michael Leavitt (Sec. HHS), David Mwakyusa (MOH of Tanzan …

… Affairs, and Karl Zinmeister, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. Got a chance to chat a fair amount with Jenna Bush as we waited together for the affair to begin. She is a very nice person who said that she was “in awe” of me because of all of the ama …

… ors brokered convention. He said, “if it is a behind closed doors convention, there is no chance that Obama will out-maneuver the Clinton machine. She will be the nominee, split the party and McCain will win. After dinner we all went over an Photo album of the POTUS and …

… erding a hard time about not acting with leadership in a “crisis”. I stated that needle-exchange works and that abstinence only does not work. This may upset some ideologues in HHS or the WH. Mild Fall day – slightly cloudy. Sept. 23-30, 2008 – Major crisis on Wall Stre …

… point that the Vaccine Enterprise in the person of Allan Bernstein is looking for ways to change the direction of HIV vaccine research even though he has been in the field only for months. He is a very good guy, but I repeat my usual statement of “everybody wants to be …