'I felt very gratified, because my work helped to protect the poor.' BBCWorld
Image captionA whistleblower who exposed HIV and hepatitis epidemics in central China in the 1990s, potentially saving tens of thousands of lives, has died aged 59.She died in Utah in the US, where she moved after the scandal.
She immediately alerted her seniors to test for HIV in all the blood stations in Henan province. Again, she was told this would be too costly. At a health conference later that year, a high-ranking official complained about that"man in a district clinical testing centre [who] dared to report the HIV epidemic directly to the central government"."I stood up and said I'm not a man. I'm a woman and I reported this."
Several years later, Dr Wang re-married and moved with her husband Gary Christensen to Salt Lake City, where she began working at the University of Utah as a medical researcher.
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