Conference honors lost colleagues
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A WORLD forum on AIDS got under way yesterday with tributes to the six campaigners killed aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
Delegates at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne stood for a minute’s silence in honor of the men and women who died while traveling to the event.
Among them was Joep Lange, a Dutch scientist who played a key role in AIDS research for three decades.
“Let our silence represent our sadness, our anger and our solidarity,” said French scientist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, who co-won the Nobel Prize for helping to discover the virus that causes AIDS.
Australian researcher Sharon Lewin, an expert in the search for a cure for HIV, said the AIDS community had been deeply shocked by the loss of Lange and his partner, Jacqueline van Tongeren, a prominent campaigner.
“I ... know they would want us all to continue the great work they were both so passionate about,” said Lewin.
A candlelit vigil will be held in the city’s Federation Square tomorrow night.
About 12,000 researchers, policy-makers, workers and activists are expected to attend the event.
The key issues this year are the latest news on the search for a cure and a campaign in Africa to encourage male circumcision to protect men from HIV.
There is also a groundswell of anger at laws against gays in Africa and a crackdown on intravenous drug users in Russia that experts say are helping HIV to thrive by driving it underground.
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