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GV Media Group journalist, Trudy Simpson, has been named a winner of the fpa's Rosemary Goodchild Award for Excellence in Journalism - for the second year running.

GV Media Group journalist Trudy Simpson has been named a winner of the fpa's (formerly Family Planning Association) Rosemary Goodchild Award for Excellence in Journalism, for the second straight year.

Simpson, who works for The Weekly Gleaner's sister paper, The Voice, based in London, beat scores of entries to become one of two winners awarded this year. Simpson won the award for her article, 'Why it's a secret mum's dying from AIDS - how the young deal with the issue'.

The article appeared in The Voice in December 2007.

The fpa, one of Britain's leading sexual health charities, gives the award for the best published newspaper or magazine article on a sexual health topic.

The fpa said Simpson's article tackled and dealt with a sensitive issue in a very thoughtful and elegant manner.

Could change attitudes

"It challenged people and their attitudes towards HIV and could really help change people's behaviour and attitudes," a spokesperson from the organisation said.

Simpson, a Jamaican, who has been working in the United Kingdom for the past few years, also won the award in 2007 for her article 'There's life after HIV and it can be good.'

Simpson, who previously worked at The Gleaner in Jamaica, will receive the award and a cash prize at the fpa's annual summer reception at the House of Lords next month.