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Dr. Peter Attia

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The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

Okay.

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

Okay.

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

Okay. So we have nothing. And what is the approximate conversion? So for a patient who develops AIDS, what fraction of those will go on to develop KS?

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

Okay. So we have nothing. And what is the approximate conversion? So for a patient who develops AIDS, what fraction of those will go on to develop KS?

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

What was the prevalence of HIV AIDS in the population in Uganda?

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

What was the prevalence of HIV AIDS in the population in Uganda?

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

I mean, worst Russian roulette's one in six if you've only got one bullet in the chamber.

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

I mean, worst Russian roulette's one in six if you've only got one bullet in the chamber.

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

These patients weren't necessarily dying from the KS directly. That's a proxy for how weak their immune system was. I assume they were ultimately dying from a pneumonia? Yeah.

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

These patients weren't necessarily dying from the KS directly. That's a proxy for how weak their immune system was. I assume they were ultimately dying from a pneumonia? Yeah.

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

What did you know at this point in time about HIV? Because the virus had been identified by this point. What was known and what was unknown?

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

What did you know at this point in time about HIV? Because the virus had been identified by this point. What was known and what was unknown?

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

This was with Gallo? Was it Gallo?

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

This was with Gallo? Was it Gallo?

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

Going back to these 16-year-old girls, is the reason that the heterosexual transmission was so high because the viral loads were through the roof? Because today, if a male with HIV had unprotected sex with a female, it would not be that high, would it?

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

Going back to these 16-year-old girls, is the reason that the heterosexual transmission was so high because the viral loads were through the roof? Because today, if a male with HIV had unprotected sex with a female, it would not be that high, would it?

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

So it's a one-two punch. Yeah. Super high viral load.

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

So it's a one-two punch. Yeah. Super high viral load.

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

And so the government was receptive to this. Yeah. They understood the science. They understood the epidemiology. And they were completely on board with the campaign.

The Peter Attia Drive
#346 - Scaling biotech and improving global health: lessons from an extraordinary career in medicine | Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H.

And so the government was receptive to this. Yeah. They understood the science. They understood the epidemiology. And they were completely on board with the campaign.