MELBOURNE: A six-day world forum on AIDS got underway 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 honor of six colleagues who had been aboard the plane.

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