Joep Lange

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Joseph Marie Albert Lange (born September 25, 1954 in Nieuwenhagen , Limburg Province , Netherlands ; † July 17, 2014 near Hrabowe , Donetsk Oblast , Ukraine ) was a Dutch doctor who played a leading role in the development of therapies against the immunodeficiency virus HIV .

Life

Long studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam . There he received his Doctor of Medicine in 1981 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1987 . After receiving his doctorate, he worked as a medical professor at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam. From 1992 to 1995 Lange worked for the World Health Organization (WHO). From 2002 to 2004 he was also President of the World AIDS Conference . He died on July 17, 2014 on the way to the 20th World AIDS Conference in Melbourne , after a Boeing 777 on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile.

Act

Lange campaigned for medicines to be distributed throughout Africa . He is considered to have made a decisive contribution to the development of antiretroviral therapy .

Awards

In 2007 he and two malaria researchers were awarded the Eijkman Medal, which is awarded by the Stichting Eijkman Foundation for outstanding achievements in tropical medicine .

literature

Web links

Wikiquote: Joep Lange  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joep Lange - obituary. The Daily Telegraph , July 18, 2014, accessed July 19, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Peter-Philipp Schmidt: A giant of AIDS research. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 18, 2014, accessed on July 18, 2014 .
  3. ↑ MH 17 flight crash victims include Joep Lange, World's Top AIDS Researcher. news.biharprabha.com, July 19, 2014, accessed July 19, 2014 .
  4. ^ Dipika Jain, Rachel Stephens: The Struggle for Access to Treatment for HIV / AIDS in India . 2008, p. 105 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed July 18, 2014]).
  5. ↑ AIDS researchers on board MH17: “A huge blow”. Spiegel Online , July 18, 2014, accessed July 18, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Prize Winner ( Memento of July 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), website of the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen , accessed on July 19, 2014.
  7. ^ Stichting Eijkman Medal Fund. Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen , archived from the original on July 8, 2014 ; Retrieved February 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Long, Joep
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lange, Joseph Marie Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch medic
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Nieuwenhagen
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 2014
Place of death near Hrabove , Donetsk Oblast , Ukraine