Gao Yaojie
Chinese AIDS activist
Died when: 95 years 356 days (1151 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gao Yaojie (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Gao Yàojié; born 1927) was a Chinese gynecologist, academic, and AIDS activist in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China.
Gao has been honored for her work by the United Nations and Western organizations, and had spent time under house arrest.
Her split with the Chinese authority on the transmission and the seriousness of the AIDS epidemic in China hinders her further activities and resulted in her leaving for the United States in 2009.
She is now living alone in uptown Manhattan, New York City.
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