World loses a giant in the field of HIV/AIDS research

July 18, 2014 13:47

About 100 of the 298 people killed on the downed Malaysia Airlines jet were heading to the AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne, including researchers, health workers, activists and people living with HIV.

But Dutch HIV researcher and former International Aids Society (IAS) president Dr Joep Lange and his wife and collaborator Jacqueline van Tongeren are among those killed.

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