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Children of Agent Orange
Copyright Hiroko Tanaka 2025
Updated Jan 2013
Topics Agent Orange, Birth, children, Disability, Documentary, Editorial, Ho Chi Minh City, Illness, Mental Illness, Military, Orphans, Photography, photojournalism, Portraiture, Pregnancy/Birth, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Weapons

Peace Village ward at Tu Du Hospital is home for surviving child victims of Agent Orange, a controversial chemical agent contained dioxin, used by the U.S military during the Vietnam War. Decades later, civilians still suffer the consequences: Children born to parents exposed to Agent Orange can be stillborn or born with birth defects, including skin disease, mental illness, and deformities.

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