HIV/AIDS Advocate Peter Busse Dies
HIV/AIDS advocate Peter Busse -- a native of South Africa who lived with HIV for more than two decades -- died last week, according to a UNAIDS release. Busse in the 1980s founded the Township AIDS Project, South Africa's first AIDS support organization and served as director of South Africa's National Association of People Living with AIDS. Since 2000, he had been a co-chair of the Community Program Committee for the World AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa (UNAIDS release, 1/9).
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