Gao Yaojie dedicated herself to fighting China's AIDS epidemic and faced the ire of the Communist regime
Activists in China have paid tributes to an exiled Chinese doctor and human rights campaigner who exposed the AIDS epidemic in rural communities.
Doctor Gao Yaojie, 95, a retired gynecologist and medical professor died in New York on Dec. 10, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Dec. 12.
An AIDS patient from Wenlou, one of the infamous "AIDS villages" in Henan province, who identified herself only as Liu, remembered Gao as a staunch advocate for their cause.
Gao openly criticized the Chinese authorities after large numbers of people were getting infected through illegal blood transfusions and donor schemes which led to the authorities placing her under house arrest.
In the 1990s, blood-selling clinics in poverty-stricken rural areas in Henan would inject donors with untreated plasma after each paid-for donation leaving them at the same level of risk as the hospital patients.
This practice left entire villages infected with the disease, along with a growing number of AIDS orphans.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claimed that it had cracked down on the blood-selling practice and shuttered all government-run clinics that engaged in the trade.
However, Gao argued that the illegal blood-selling trade had only hidden itself underground and was operating unhindered.
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