A British photographer has won an international contest to find Unicef Photo of the Year.<\/p>\n
David Gillanders triumphed with a photograph of a ?street child?, an image described by organisers as giving ?a face to the HIV\/AIDS catastrophe in Eastern Europe?.<\/p>\n
The image shows a 13-year-old girl called Yana who died at Christmas 2004, addicted to drugs and infected with the HIV virus in the Ukranian city of Odessa.<\/p>\n
Gillanders was awarded a photo assignment for the magazine GEO, along with camera equipment. <\/p>\n
?Yana hardly said a word but she cried a lot,? said Gillanders, adding: ?On the photo she still holds the t-shirt she wiped away her tears with.? <\/p>\n
Yana had been an orphan since the age of eight. She had set out for Odessa with other homeless children after her mother died in a Moldovan prison. Since her death three more children from her group have died.<\/p>\n
There are believed to be more than 100,000 street children in the former Soviet Union who move from town to town in small groups ? mostly as stowaways on goods trains. <\/p>\n
Brazilian Mauricio Lima scooped second place with a picture of a child who suffered severe burns during the war against Iraq. Meanwhile, Frida Hedberg, a photographer from Sweden won third place.<\/p>\n
The aim of the competition is to highlight the ?worldwide situation of children in an outstanding way?.<\/p>\n
Picture credit: David Gillanders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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