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

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Phou, 13, one of the many homeless boys that are victimized by foreign pedophiles. With cyber sex tours gaining in popularity and jail sentences high in the West, pedophilia is rampant along these coastal beaches that attract hundreds of young children to find work, most whom become homeless and hungry, turning to selling their bodies to survive. NGO are now concerned that HIV will soon migrate into the street children. Nha Trang, Vietnam.
 
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