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

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A family earns a meager living by clipping off of the needles and recycling used hypodermic needles at their home in Ho chi Minh City, Vietnam. The parents and their children wear no protection when clipping off the metal needles and draining the contents.
 
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