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.
In the last part of this video series, Gao’s outspokenness has irked some health officials, for instance by predicting a major epidemic in Shandong in 3-5 years due to still significant number of illegal, but not underground, blood-buying clinics. But at a Tianjin book fair in 2005, Gao was chilled by the lack of interest in her fourth book on AIDS, in a hall packed with book shoppers. “I feel it’s mainly ignorance,” she says. Still, she is passionate about giving lectures to college students.
