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=== AIDS prevention efforts ===
In late 1996, she began writing materials about preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS, and using her own funds to publish them.<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":0" /> Her newsletter, ''Knowledge for HIV Prevention'', was first released on 1 December 1996, [[World AIDS Day]].<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":0" /> She handed out the newsletter at bus stations in Zhengzhou, requesting that passengers bring the newsletter to their destinations in the countryside.<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":0" /> It went to 15 issues and a total printing of 530,000 copies. The first issue was funded by the Henan Museum of Culture and History and the Song Qingling Foundation, but subsequent issues were funded by Gao, at the cost of between 3,000 and 5,000 yuan per issue.<ref name=":10" /><ref name=":8" /> The newsletters were also distributed at the Henan Province Epidemic Station,
Gao also included information on HIV/AIDS prevention in the 30 to 70 public lectures she gave each year on health.<ref name=":8" /> Her flat eventually became a "command center", where she printed leaflets and answered letters and phone calls from patients, doctors, and teachers about HIV/AIDS.''<ref name=":10" />''<ref name=":5">{{Cite news |last=Rosenthal |first=Elisabeth |date=28 October 2000 |title=In Rural China, a Steep Price Of Poverty: Dying of AIDS |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/28/world/in-rural-china-a-steep-price-of-poverty-dying-of-aids.html |access-date=13 December 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=10 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510055920/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/28/world/in-rural-china-a-steep-price-of-poverty-dying-of-aids.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Gao was invited by Zhengzhou City television to speak on a live TV program about HIV/AIDS prevention on 1 December 1999.<ref name=":8" />
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