Abstract
Professor Joep Lange lived a life of profound consequence. One of the true leaders in our field, his life and work played fundamental roles in shaping and directing the global response to HIV/AIDS—by any measure one of the great human, medical, and public health movements of our time. Joep was a past President of the International AIDS Society. His killing, with his beloved partner and muse Jacqueline van Tongeren, in the MH 17 attacks of July 17 th , 2014, will always be remembered by our community as one of our darkest days. (Published: 8 September 2014) Citation: Beyrer C et al. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2014, 17:19401 http://www.jiasociety.org/index.php/jias/article/view/19401 | http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/IAS.17.1.19401
Highlights
Joep Lange’s medical and scientific career traces an arc of the global response to AIDS
It is only fitting that we, the community of those engaged in global AIDS, pause here to honour Joep Lange
He finished medical training in his native Netherlands just as the epidemic began to break. His early work in the 1980s and 1990s focused on HIV pathogenesis, on the mechanisms of immune compromise seen in HIV infection and in the ravages of, the largely untreatable, clinical AIDS
Summary
It is only fitting that we, the community of those engaged in global AIDS, pause here to honour Joep Lange. Joep Lange’s medical and scientific career traces an arc of the global response to AIDS. His early work in the 1980s and 1990s focused on HIV pathogenesis, on the mechanisms of immune compromise seen in HIV infection and in the ravages of, the largely untreatable, clinical AIDS.
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