Best daily newspaper or wire service interpretation of foreign affairs
Award Year: 1994
Award Name: The Bob Considine Award 1994
Recipient: Laurie Garrett
Affiliation: Newsday/New York Newsday
Honored Work: “Aids In India”
In her gripping account of a catastrophe in the making, Garrett painted a portrait of a disease that has so far infected just a small part of India’s population. But she then described how AIDS could kill as many as 160 million people in India in the coming decade. She showed how squalid living conditions, rampant prostitution, and government-abetted ignorance could lead to an epidemic that will surpass Africa’s tragedy.
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