Geoffrey Cowley

About the author: Geoffrey Cowley is a senior editor of Newsweek and works as the magazine's health-and-medicine editor. Cowley has produced groundbreaking stories on AIDS and other health issues, and his articles, including his 1990 piece entitled "AIDS: The Next Ten Years," have won numerous awards as well as prompted government action.

By the year 2010, India will have twenty to twenty-five million people infected with AIDS. In spite of Indian government officials' beliefs that their nation's moral character and conservative sexual mores would keep AIDS from spreading there, poverty, illiteracy, and a huge commercial sex trade have contributed alarmingly to the spread of the disease. Part of India's commercial sex trade is linked with their well-developed trucking transportation system. Mothers trade sex at roadside truck-stops to feed their children and truckdrivers spread the virus along their routes...