QSFeature02AIDS022 20020212 DONGGUAN, CHINA:  Flanked by his children (age 7 and 1) and his mother, 27 yr old AIDS paitient Ding Hongjun lays in his death bed in Dongguan Village, Henan Province, China 12 February 2002. Like Ding, over 700,000 peasant farmers have contracted the HIV virus when they participated in the unregulated blood selling/buying boom of the early and mid nineties. Ding died shortly after this photo was taken..Photo by: Qilai Shen...
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