A crusade to change China’s face of AIDS

The Globe and Mail has published a profile of AIDS doctor and activist Gao Yaojie, whose work is finally being welcomed by authorities after years of harassment: “In a vast country of 1.3 billion people ruled by a powerful Communist dictatorship, how could one old lady possibly make a difference? Meet Dr. Gao Yaojie, 77… After years of intimidation and harassment by Chinese authorities, Dr. Gao is winning her long, lonely crusade to focus public attention on AIDS — in particular, on a horrifying AIDS catastrophe that has swept through hundreds of villages in her home province, Henan. ” The full story is here. For more about Dr. Gao, see here. (Photo via Globe and Mail)