[2] Her father was Hasan Pasha Rakhmanov and her mother Dr. Khavve-Hanoum Rakhmanova taught medicine in Semipalatinsk.
There in Semipalatinsk she was able to continue a good education because Moscow professors had also been exiled to the same region.
Aza was Deputy Head of the St. Petersburg City AIDS Center.
She was an adviser to the Mayor Anatoly Sobchak as well as working at Russian hospitals dealing with thousands of cases of AIDS.
Brain surgeons preferred to not wear gloves and would later find out that their patient was HIV positive.