Malaysian Flight's Toll: A Voice for Simpler AIDS Treatment (Bloomberg Businessweek)

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Many of the people who died in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 were on their way to the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, where they could have celebrated this bit of good news: For the first time last year more people worldwide were put on antiretroviral drugs that treat HIV than were newly infected from the disease. Some 2.3 million people were put on the life-saving treatments, compared to 2.1 million new infections.

Many on that flight had played a role in that progress, including Dr. Joep Lange, a Dutch professor who had spent decades in research and advocacy around getting more people in the developing world on antiretroviral medication.

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