World AIDS forum opens with tribute for plane dead

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World AIDS forum opens with tribute for plane dead

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/world-aids-forum-opens-tribute-plane-dead-114111572.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/W3NnpYMAuoDWVGZdycCoRA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-HKG-Hkg10072239-1-1-0.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Flowers are laid outside Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) to remember those lost onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, on July 19, 2014" align="left" title="Flowers are laid outside Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) to remember those lost onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, on July 19, 2014" border="0" /></a>A six-day world forum on AIDS got under way on Sunday to tributes to six campaigners killed on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and fresh vows to crush a disease that has claimed twice as many lives as World War I. Thousands of delegates at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne stood for a minute's silence in honour of six colleagues who had been aboard the plane. &quot;Let our silence represent our sadness, our anger and our solidarity,&quot; 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, a leading expert in the search for a cure for HIV, said the tight-knit AIDS community had been deeply shocked by the loss of Lange and his partner, Jacqueline van Tongeren, a prominent grassroots campaigner.</p><br clear="all"/>

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