Index World Press Photo
August 2009 | Edition Twelve     




So-called lady-boy prostitutes waits for customers. Many smoke Yaa baa, Thailand’s widest-used drug, using the money they have made selling their bodies. Yaa baa is the Thai term for methamphetamine and translates literally into English as "mad medicine". It is the number one drug problem in Thailand, affecting primarily teenagers and young workers.

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