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

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Wearing plastic gloves or a surgical mask for fear of getting sick, evangelical Christians pray over the sick at the Wat Prah Bat Nam Phu hospice. Their purpose is to try and convert Buddhist to Christianity in their final days of life before dying of AIDS. Lop Buri, Thailand.
 
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