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Second Place
John Stanmeyer
VII / TIME Magazine
"Afghanistan Health Care Crisis"

 

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Brought in by her parents due to shock during the start of the civil war in the 80's, Jamila, 30, has spent eighteen years of her life living in the Marastoon Mental Health Hospital. For the past two years she has lived inside this room, eating under a blanket on her bed defecating all over the floor and cloth mattress.
 
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