Index World Press Photo
May 2006 | Edition Four     


Fang Tao looks out from a bus window leaving the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, China on October 2, 2001. The six-year-old, whose father died fighting a disastrous flood along the Yangtze River in 1998, was found suffering from blood cancer one month later. After 20 sessions of chemotherapy over three years in hospital, his family had to cut treatment because they could no longer afford it.



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