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First Place
John Stanmeyer
VII / TIME Magazine

"Sex, Drugs and Death: AIDS Let Loose In Asia"  




For young women in the northern Shan state, a life of poverty and hard labor are all that most can see as a future, which makes working in neighboring Thailand as a sex worker a financial bounty, but often times a death sentence by contracting AIDS. Kengtung, Burma.
 
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