Joep Lange and partner among number of scientists and activists flying to international Aids conference in MelbourneAmong more than 100 scientists and campaigners flying to the international Aids conference in Melbourne on board flight MH17 was a former leader in the field, Joep Lange from the Netherlands, who was travelling with his partner, Jacqueline van Tongeren.Lange was president of the International Aids Society, which runs the meeting, from 2002 to 2004, spanning the two-year interval between the Barcelona and Bangkok conferences, where drug treatment for all those with HIV around the world were top of the agenda. The Aids pandemic …read more
Source: The Guardian
