{"id":60733,"date":"2023-12-25T02:13:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T17:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/24\/gao-yaojie-obituary"},"modified":"2023-12-25T02:13:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T17:13:35","slug":"gao-yaojie-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60733","title":{"rendered":"Gao Yaojie obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor and Aids activist who uncovered China\u2019s blood contamination scandal despite resistance from health officials<\/p>\n<p>When walking down a narrow alley in a small north Chinese village in the mid-1990s, Dr Gao Yaojie heard a child crying desperately for its mother. \u201cWhen I entered,\u201d she later recalled, \u201cI saw that the mother had hanged herself and the body was stiff.\u201d The father had already died and the family was destitute after being defrauded by quack doctors.<\/p>\n<p>In another village in Henan province, half the houses hung white paper emblems outside to signify a death. The villagers called it the \u201cnameless fever\u201d, and orphans were left to scavenge for food in the fields.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/24\/gao-yaojie-obituary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor and Aids activist who uncovered China\u2019s blood contamination scandal despite resistance from health officialsWhen walking down a narrow alley in a small north Chinese village in the mid-1990s, Dr Gao Yaojie heard a child crying desperately for it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[791,50,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aids-and-hiv","category-china","category-society","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60734,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60733\/revisions\/60734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}