Prominent HIV researcher Joep Lange was among the victims of flight MH17 - Vox
A professor of medicine and head of the department of global
health at the University of Amsterdam, Lange had been involved in HIV
treatment and research since 1983, just as the virus was emerging as a
global health threat.
He was one of the key researchers behind several
pivotal antiretroviral therapy trials, including projects involving the
prevention of mother-to-child transmission of the virus in both the
developing and developed world, according to the Amsterdam Institute of
Global Health and Development. He was also an early advocate of bringing
HIV medications to the developing world.
Lange was on his way to AIDS 2014, a global conference that will take
place in Melbourne, Australia from July 20 to 25, at the time of death.
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