Over 100 International AIDS Conference Delegates Die In Malaysian Plane Shot Down

According to the Sydney Morning Herald,
delegates arriving in Australia for the AIDS
conference were told that 108 of their
colleagues had perished on board Malaysian
Airlines flight MH17 were bound for the 20th
International AIDS Conference in Melbourne,
it emerged yesterday.

The disaster, which left 298 people dead,
claimed the lives of some of the world’s
leading experts in the battle against HIV and
devastated their families, friends and
colleagues.
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