Best international reporting in the print medium showing a concern for the human condition
AWARD YEAR: 2006
AWARD NAME: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 2006
RECIPIENT: Celia W. Dugger and Donald С. Mcneil, Jr.
AFFILIATION: The New York Times
HONORED WORK: “Diseases on the Brink”
These vivid reports combined poignant personal reporting and comprehensive investigation of medical, cultural and political realities to point up serious Third World health problems that could be eliminated with just a bit more understanding and effort, which the series itself helped to generate. The writers traveled to India, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Haiti, Nepal, Kazakhstan and Ghana highlighting the horrors left behind by such diseases as lymphatic filariasis, blinding trachoma, measles, polio, and guinea worm — ailments that no longer trouble the developed world, but persist in poor regions.
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