MTS7 - Anthony Fauci - Managing Infectious Disease on a Global Scale
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Dr. Anthony Fauci is the director of NIAID \\u2013 the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Disease \\u2013 where he is also Chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation. Dr. Fauci\\u2019s research interests lie primarily in the molecular mechanisms of HIV and AIDS, and he has published extensively on the interactions of HIV with the immune system. He\\u2019ll be speaking at the opening session of ICAAC \\u2013 the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy \\u2013 on October 25 in Washington DC, where he\\u2019ll describe some of the remaining challenges in the fight against HIV, tuberculosis, and antibiotic resistant microbes.
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Dr. Fauci is not only a researcher, he is also an important player in science policy in the U.S. He was a primary architect of PEPFAR, the President\\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a program that received reauthorization and has a budget of $48 billion for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria around the world. In honor of his efforts to improve our understanding and treatment of HIV and AIDS, Dr. Fauci was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation\\u2019s highest civil award.
\\nIn this interview, I talked with Dr. Fauci about progress in managing infectious disease on a global scale, why it\\u2019s the \\u201cdevil you don\\u2019t know\\u201d that is still the scariest infectious disease of all, and about the roles of abstinence education and condom awareness in PEPFAR.
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