Finalist
Christian Holst
Reportage by Getty Images
"Half a Century Without Freedom - Life under the Military Regime of Burma"
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Thida is 19 years old. She has tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS and is on her way to a hospital in suburb of Rangoon but it was too late - she died ten days later.
According to Thida she was raped by an army officer and contracted the virus this way. She lived with her little sister and her grandmother but lack of knowledge about the disease is high and stigma even higher and when the grandmother learned of her disease, she asked her to move out. The last few months of her life she lived with a teacher friend of the owner of the jewellery store where she worked.
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