Joep M. Lange   from the Independent: 'There are fears the cure for AIDS could have been lost with 100 of the “best and brightest” scientists and researchers on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. Joep Lange, a world-renowned researcher and former president of the International AIDS Society, was with a group heading to the global AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne, Australia. The exact number of scientists he was traveling with has not been confirmed but delegates in Sydney were told that emails indicated around 100 attendees were on the ill-fated plane.' One research study he co-authored: Chloroquine treatment increases HIV-1 plasma viral loads in breastfeeding mothers without influencing the gp120 envelope genotype