AFRO-NETS> Dr Jonathan Mann (cont.)

[Manivone Thikeo <nampa@bu.edu>]

Dr Jonathan Mann (cont.)
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It shocked me when I heard that Dr Jonathan Mann was involved in that 
flight. Also I got e-mail from Dr Laing who told about the death of Dr 
Jonathan Mann. Dr Jonathan Mann was a great professor. I did talk to 
him only a few minutes after HIV class at Boston University. I dreamed 
to talk to him when I was student in school of Medicine in Lao PDR. He 
is the person that all HIV patients in the world have been waiting for 
help. On behalf of students in the school of Public Health at BU and 
Lao students I would like to send my tear and my sadness to his couple 
and his family.

I will remember that once I used to be his student.

Manivone Thikeo
mailto:nampa@bu.edu

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From: Christopher L. Byrne <info@idn.org>
Director, International Development Network

Swissair Crash Claims Lives of Several Development Professionals
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In today's on-line edition of USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com), the 
following list of development professionals whose lives were lost in 
the Swissair Crash has been posted:

Dr. Jonathan Mann, a top pioneer in the fight against AIDS and current 
dean of Allegheny University of the Health Sciences School of Public 
Health in Philadelphia. Mann, an American, was the first director of 
the World Health Organization's global program on AIDS and was en route 
to a meeting of AIDS experts.

Mary-Lou Clements-Mann, Mann's American wife. A professor in the De-
partment of International Health at Johns Hopkins University in Balti-
more. She specialized in research into vaccines.

Pierce Gerety, director of African Great Lakes operations at the U.N. 
High Commissioner of Refugees. An American, Gerety was a veteran of 
refugee operations in Sudan, Philippines, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Soma-
lia and the Great Lakes area around Rwanda, Congo and Burundi.

Kathryn Calvert-Mazy, UNHCR senior social welfare officer. A French-
woman with seven years experience at the refugee agency.

Joachim Bilger, controller of the World Intellectual Property Organiza-
tion (WIPO). 

Ludwig Beaumler, a WIPO official.

Yves de Roussan, UNICEF regional adviser for Central and Eastern Europe
and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Ingrid Acevedo, the director of public relations for the U.S. Committee 
for UNICEF. 

The IDN extends our sympathies and condolences to the families, friends 
and colleagues of all whose lives were lost in this tragedy.

Christopher L. Byrne 
mailto:info@idn.org

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