AIDS activist Gao Yaojie checks in to a ticket counter at the Beijing Capital airport as she prepares to leave China for the U.S. in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 26, 2007. Gao, a Chinese physician who humiliated the federal government by exposing the AIDS epidemic in rural China in the 1990s and invested her last years in exile in the United States, passed away Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023, at her home in Manhattan. She was 95. Credit: AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, File
Prominent Chinese medical professional and activist Gao Yaojie who exposed the AIDS infection epidemic in rural China in the 1990s passed away Sunday at the age of 95 at her home in the United States.
Gao’s outspokenness about the infection break out– which some evaluated to have actually contaminated 10s of thousands– humiliated the Chinese federal government and drove her to reside in self-exile for over a years in Manhattan, New York.
Lin Shiyu, a female near to Gao and who assembled a narrative history of her, validated to The Associated Press in an e-mail Monday that Gao’s “guardian,” Columbia University teacher Andrew J. Nathan, called her to let her understand of the doctor’s death. Nathan did not right away react to emailed concerns by the AP.
