Chinese laud 'great' Gao Yaojie, dissident doctor and AIDS whistleblower

Beijing (AFP) Dec 12, 2023

A dissident doctor who became China's most outspoken AIDS campaigner was praised in her home country on Tuesday, days after she died in self-exile in the United States at age 95. Gao Yaojie moved to New York in 2009 after years of harassment by Chinese officials believed to be nursing grudges after she exposed a cover-up of the true extent of the AIDS epidemic in central Henan province.