Red Flame Instant (Written by Li Ying).On December 11, Chiyan News learned from multiple sources that Mr. Gao Yaojie, known as the "anti-AIDS fighter", died in New York on December 10, local time, at the age of 95.
He is known as "the first person in civil AIDS prevention".
Gao Yaojie, female, from Cao County, Shandong, was born in 1927 and graduated from the School of Medicine of Henan University in 1954. Deputy to the Seventh People's Congress of Henan Province, member of Jiusan Society, researcher of Henan Provincial Research Museum of Culture and History, retired professor of Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and ** oncology expert. Over the years, he has spent nearly one million yuan to print AIDS prevention publicity materials at his own expense, helping AIDS patients and AIDS orphans, and has been praised as "the first person in China to prevent HIV/AIDS". Gao Yaojie was the first to put forward the concept of "AIDS orphans", and since 2000, she has focused on helping AIDS orphans.
In 1996, by chance, Gao Yaojie came into contact with a woman who had contracted AIDS due to blood transfusion, and began to realize the seriousness of blood-borne AIDS. Since the beginning of this year, she has embarked on a long and arduous road of "HIV/AIDS prevention" among the people, carrying out AIDS prevention and relief work at her own expense.
In the years that followed, she traveled to more than 10 counties and cities, hundreds of towns and villages in the Central Plains, and met more than 1,000 AIDS patientsShe published the book "Prevention and Treatment of AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases" at her own expense, distributing 300,000 copies free of charge, and the tabloid "Knowledge of AIDS Prevention" edited by her has also published 15 issues with a print run of 530,000 copies.
In the face of the severe AIDS epidemic, Mr. Gao Yaojie refused to remain silent and was the first to stand up and become a whistleblower on the blood transmission of AIDS. Her integrity and courage have won the respect of the world and she has become a well-known figure in the fight against AIDS in China.
He has won the "Person of the Year who moved China".
In 2001, the Global Council for Health awarded Mr. Gao Yaojie the Jonathan Mann Prize for Health and Human Rights, and she donated $20,000 in prize money and $10,000 in grants to print "AIDS and STDs". Then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan praised her as a female activist in rural China who campaigned on HIV/AIDS prevention.
In 2003, Mr. Gao Yaojie was also awarded the "2003 Top Ten People of the Year Who Moved China".
Gao Yaojie won the 2003 Top Ten People of the Year in China.
The award speech reads: This is an old man who is faltering, but she has taken firm steps on the road to realizing the life ideal of "I wish everyone is healthy, why not let me be poor". She dispelled people's prejudices and fears with her profound knowledge and rational thinking, and she warmed the helpless and cold of the weak with her mother's love and selfless enthusiasm. She did her best to promote the arduous project of human prevention and treatment of AIDS, and she turned all the energy in her life into a ray of sunshine, hoping to shine into the hearts of AIDS patients and illuminate their future.
In addition, in 2005 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize;He has won the "Nobel Prize of Asia", the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in Asia, and the Jonathan Mann World Health and Human Rights Award. In 1995 and 2000, he was selected as an advanced member by the Henan Provincial Committee of Jiusan Society, and in 2003, he was rated as an advanced individual in social service work.
Gao Yaojie data map.
Chiyan News noticed that as early as 2005, Mr. Gao Yaojie had made a will. The will mentions that after death, there will be no cemetery, no ashes, and the ashes will be scattered into the Yellow River with the ashes of his wife Guo Mingjiu, so that it will flow into the sea and disappear forever.
Source**: China Overseas Chinese Network, Jiupai News, Upstream News, China Youth Magazine, New York Times, etc
Edited by Zhang Xibin Program Editor Zhao Yaqi