Dutch Doctor Killed on MH17 Saved Lives With Advocacy, Research
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Two months before veteran AIDS researcher Joep Lange perished in the Malaysia Airlines jetliner shot down over Ukraine, he was in Moscow, pressing for Russia to start programs to prevent HIV spread among drug users.
Lange was “advocating harm reduction,” said Michel Kazatchkine, a close friend of Lange and the United Nations envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. “We talked about this. We felt that in times of crisis, you need to remain engaged.”