Dr. Gao Yaojie, the 80-year-old veteran AIDS fighter and national hero, was recently barred by the local government from going to Beijing to get her US visa to receive an award from US senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Here in the first part of a series of videos, you can learn about how Gao bumped into AIDS work by chance more than 10 years ago, what she found out about the truth of China’s AIDS epidemic in Henan, and what she brings to AIDS patients.