AIDS community mourns loss of 100 AIDS activists and researchers in Malaysia plane crash
18 July 2014
The international AIDS community is mourning the deaths of more than 100 AIDS activists and researchers whose plane was shot down over Ukraine and who were travelling to Melbourne for the International HIV/AIDS conference.
298 people – 283 passengers including three infants and 15 crew – were killed on the Malaysia Airlines flight 17.
The former International AIDS Society president Joep Lange and his partner and ArtAids board member Jacqueline van Tongeren have been confirmed as having been on the flight, while there are reports of others including a World Health Organization spokesman, Glenn Thomas.
IDPC would like to offer its deepest condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of those who died in this trategic and shocking event.