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First Place
John Stanmeyer
VII / TIME Magazine
"Sex, Drugs and Death: AIDS Let Loose In Asia"  

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Selection of teenage Burmese girls one can choose from inside a brothel in Mai Sot, Thailand. All the girls are trafficked into the country and many return back to their poor villages having earned little to no money and infected with AIDS.
 
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