From the Press Release: The British photographer David Gillanders (more of Gillanders photos here) is the winner of this year’s international photographic contest „UNICEF Photo of the Year“. His photo shows a street child in Odessa. Yana made her way from Moldova, the poorest country in Eastern Europe, to the Ukrainian city. She died last Christmas addicted to drugs and infected with the HI virus. She was only 13 years old. Yana’s fate is a typical example for a lost generation of children and adolescents in many Eastern European countries. In no other region of the world does the virus spread as rapidly – above all because drug addicts often use contaminated syringes. Approximately one per cent of the population is addicted to hard drugs. 1.4 million have already contracted HIV, primarily young people are affected: 80 per cent of all infected people in Eastern Europe are less than 30 years old – every tenth of them is a child. See the other winners and the stories behind their photographs here. 
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