Dr. Jonathan Max Mann, a renowned pioneer in the fight against AIDS, was one of the victims of the recent crash of Swiss Air flight 111. Dr. Mann was the founder and first director of the World Health Organization's Global Program on AIDS. In later years he returned to the Harvard School of Public Health, where he helped to found, and became the first Director of, the Franois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. He also founded the journal Health and Human Rights, listed as Resource #7 in our Winter 1997 issue. Dr. Mann was thoroughly of the conviction that many diseases -- and most especially AIDS -- were rooted in social issues which were violations of human rights. Among these issues he included the abuses to which women are subjected. Dr. Mann's lecture on AIDS was reported in our Fall 1995 issue. Jonathan Mann killed in SwissAir 111
by Irma S. Jarcho
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