This year’s global AIDS Conference has ambitious goals, notably to eradicate the dreaded virus by 2030. But a cloud hung over the proceedings, caused by the death of six researchers and AIDS experts who were among those killed on a Malaysia Airlines flight shot down over volatile eastern Ukraine.
During the next week, about 12,000 delegates at this massive international event will discuss nearly every facet of the virus that has confounded the world for more than three decades. They will discuss everything from the hard science behind HIV treatment, to how the virus affects families and societies around the world.
But first they observed a minute of somber silence for the six top researchers and activists who were killed Thursday en route to the conference, when pro-Russian rebels in restive eastern Ukraine allegedly shot down their commercial plane, killing all 298 people aboard.
International AIDS Society president Francoise Barre-Sinoussi expressed grief over the loss of the researchers, which included her predecessor, leading Dutch researcher Dr. Joep Lange.
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