Gao Yaojie, doctor who exposed AIDS epidemic in rural China, dies at 95

By Associated Press

Dec 11, 2023 6:00 pm

RENOWNED Chinese doctor and activist Gao Yaojie, who exposed the AIDS virus epidemic in rural China in the 1990s, died at her home in the United States on Sunday. She was 95.

Gao's outspokenness about the virus outbreak — which some gauged to have infected tens of thousands — embarrassed the Chinese government and drove her to live in self-exile for over a decade in Manhattan, New York.

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