Physician and self-exiled activist Gao Yaojie who exposed the AIDS epidemic in rural China passes away at 95
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.
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