Flight 17 Crash Casts Shadow Over Melbourne AIDS Meeting
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A prominent AIDS researcher and five others headed to a medical meeting in Australia were confirmed killed in the crash of a Malaysia Airlines flight, and more who planned to attend the event may be among the dead.
Former International AIDS Society President Joep Lange and his partner, Jacqueline van Tongeren, were among the dead. Also on board were World Health Organization spokesman Glenn Thomas, lobbyist Pim de Kuijer and program manager Martine de Schutter from the Netherlands AIDS Fund. They were among 298 on flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed in eastern Ukraine, according to statements from their organizations.