Taiwanese-American doctor and researcher David Da-i Ho was BOTD in 1952. Born in Taiwan, he immigrated to the United States with his family as a child and grew up in Los Angeles. He studied biology at the California Institute of Technology and later at Harvard University, completing clinical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases. In 1981, he became a resident in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, during the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He switched his clinical focus to research on the HIV virus, and was instrumental in developing combination antiretroviral therapy to treat HIV+ and AIDS patients. His pioneering work received international attention and a series of academic and civil honours, and he was named Time magazine’s 1996 Man of the Year. Ho and his team were the first to demonstrate the effective use of long-acting antiretroviral drugs to help prevent exposure to the HIV virus. Ho has three children from a previous marriage and a fourth child with his partner Tera Wong. He earns Honorary SuperGay status for saving and improving the lives of millions of patients, helping make living with HIV/AIDS a manageable condition and significantly reducing social stigmas associated with the virus.