In her earlier career life abroad, Solomon had worked as a junior physician at King’s College Hospital, London.[13] After returning to India, Solomon worked as a microbiologist at Madras Medical College and rose to the rank of professor.[2] She followed the literature about the clinical descriptions of AIDS in 1981, discovery of HIV in 1983 and by 1986 decided to test 100 female sex workers, as India had no openly gay community.