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  • The new business district of Pudong, Shanghai. China
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  • The new business district of Pudong, Shanghai. China
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  • The new business district of Pudong, Shanghai. China
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  • The new business district of Pudong, Shanghai. China
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  • The new business district of Pudong, Shanghai. China
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  • The new business district of Pudong, Shanghai. China
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  • The new business district of Pudong, Shanghai. China
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  • The new business district of Pudong, Shanghai. China
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  • The new business district of Pudong, Shanghai. China
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  • The new business district of Pudong, Shanghai. China
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  • Shanthi - "After an argument with my parents one day, I went with a friend to Madras. I was taken away by a woman and then sold to a series of people who tried to use me as a prostitute. When I refused, they would sell me on to the next person. I was only 13.In Bombay I was tortured a lot and eventually compelled to do 'that business'. I was in that business for 10 years until 1991 when 3500 of us were 'rescued' by the Tamil Nadu Government. All of us had blood samples taken. News leaked out and I discovered I had HIV. I knew nothing about it. Eventually I got in touch with the South India AIDS Action Programme. They gave me a job distributing condoms. I started visiting government hospitals where people were being treated. It was where I met my husband. It was good to meet someone else who was positive and we could support each other. We have no livelihood, we lost our home because our status was exposed, and my husband has been ill. We are suffering a lot but we have each other."
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  • I was born in America and I came over here when I was five. I was living with my foster parent, and my father  married her, and I have been living with her for thirteen years. I first left home when I was seventeen. My Mom kicked me out, we just couldn't get along.  I moved around a bit, lived in hostels and that, I lived in shared accomodation in Hackney - I had a drug problem. I got rid of the drug problem and got back to square one and was back in  hostels. My brother had just passed away, and my mother was in hospital, I was just taking drugs to calm myself down, to get rid of the problem, but the problems were still there, and I was taking more. There are no good things in my life, I've been kicked out of hostels for fighting, I've been banned from others. I've lived on the streets, and it's no joy. In the summer time it's all right, it's warm, inn the winter, it's not all all, it's too cold. It's freezing - I didn't really get to sleep at all in the night. I didn't actualy get to sleep until the morning. If it was my time to die out there, I wouldn't be here now, that's how I see it. I wasn't on the street for that long but seemed for ever. I was actually on the streets for about three months. It doesn't seem long to some of the people out there but it was a long time for me. My cousin introduced me to the class A drug that I don't want to see any more. I've finished with it now, I've learnt from my mistakes.  The good things - I've got a daughter, she's six years old. I try to see her but her mom starts moving around all the time, and II have to go to court, so.... I was thirteen and a half when she was born, well coming upto foureen. When it's your child you have to stick by it. That's the good thing, that's all. What do I want for the future?....having a Ferrari, a good business....but they're all dreams to me.
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  • Pedestrians in the busy shopping centre of Chongqing, The People's Republic of China
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