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Enslaved in Slave Island #14

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Iresha Wijesinghe, lab assistant at the National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP) clinic tending to needle users in Slave Island. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.

• 50mm • f/1.4 • 1/250 • ISO200 • 5DMkIV & EF 50/1.4 courtesy Canon/Metropolitan

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COVID wasn’t the Only Disease #3

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Buddhika Lakmal, a National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP) outreach worker, poses in full PPE outside his Slave Island clinic, in January 2022. NSACP mobile teams continued to operate throughout the pandemic, and Buddhika is about to head out to nearby Stewart Street to take blood samples, and hand out HIV self-tests, needles, condoms, and educational literature to heroin addicts. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund.

• 105mm • f/4 • 1/500 • ISO125 • 5DMkIV & EF 24-105/f4L courtesy Canon/Metropolitan

Behind the Beach #3

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A National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP) outreach worker conducts a mobile clinic for beach boys in the Sri Lankan tourist town of Hikkaduwa, registering sex workers, conducting blood tests, and handing out condoms and educational literature. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.

• 47mm • f/4 • 1/4000 • ISO800 • 5DMkIV & EF 24-105/f4L courtesy Canon/Metropolitan

Enslaved in Slave Island #11

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PA Fernando, an outreach worker with the National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP). Shot on Stewart Street, Slave Island, for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.

• 50mm • f/1.4 • 1/1250 • ISO200 • 5DMkIV & EF 50/1.4, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

Enslaved in Slave Island #7

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Shaniya Elayan, programme coordinator, at the National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP) clinic tending to needle users in Slave Island. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.

• 50mm • f/1.4 • 1/250 • ISO200 • 5DMkIV & EF 50/1.4, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

Enslaved in Slave Island #6

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An outreach worker with the National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP), at work on Stewart Street, Slave Island, collating registration forms filled by needle using drug addicts. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.

• 50mm • f/4 • 1/320 • ISO400 • Canon 5DMkIV & EF 24-105/f4L, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan

Man in the Field

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In a gutted ground floor flat in the Wekanda Housing Scheme, Buddhika Lakmal, a National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP) outreach worker gets ready to conduct tests on heroin addicts for hepatitis C, syphilis, and other diseases contracted by sharing needles. Stewart Street, Slave Island. January 2022. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund.*

*shot on a Canon EOS 5DMkIV & EF 24-105/f4L, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.