Some of the world’s leading medical researchers and Aids experts, who were on their way to a major conference in Australia, were passengers on the Malaysian aircraft that the US said was shot down over Ukraine.
Delegates attending a pre-conference event in Sydney on Friday were told up that up to 100 people attending the event may have been on the flight, which claimed 298 lives when it crashed. Almost 14,000 delegates from 200 countries are expected to attend the Aids conference.
The victims include Joep Lange, a Dutch HIV researcher and former head of the International Aids Society, as well as a number of other delegates at the 20th International Aids Conference, which begins on Sunday.
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