Famous HIV doctor and freedom party politician dies after falling down stairs in a Rome hospital, authorities say alleged suicide
Top Italian immunologist and former centre-right politician Fernando Aiuti died after falling down stairs at a hospital in Rome on Wednesday. Aiuti, 83, would go on to die of complications due to the fall (he had been at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital for treatment of a heart condition). Rome prosecutors are investigating the death and police are not ruling out suicide. As well as being a world-renowned immunologist who pioneered AIDS treatment, he was an expert on the retrovirus and a former member of three-time premier and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi’s now-defunct People of Freedom party. Born in the Marche town of...
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