AHF Honors the Memory of Chinese Activist-Clinician Dr. Gao

AHF Honors the Memory of Chinese Activist-Clinician Dr. Gao

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #AIDS--AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today commemorated the life and work of Chinese HIV/AIDS clinician and advocate Dr. Gao Yaojie, who brought to light the HIV epidemic in rural China caused by tainted blood supplies in the 1990s. Dr. Gao died at her home in New York on Dec. 10 at the age of 95. “Dr. Gao courageously refused to be silenced when she discovered that thousands of people in rural China had acquired HIV through unsanitary blood-selling schemes. Despite tr

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