Human Rights Watch Report Looks at Link Between Human Rights Abuses, Spread of HIV/AIDS
- "Preventing the Further Spread of HIV/AIDS: The Essential Role of Human Rights," Human Rights Watch: In the report, Joseph Amon, director of HIV/AIDS research at HRW, looks at the role of human rights abuses in the spread of HIV/AIDS and "whether [the pandemic is] due to denial of the existence or extent of the epidemic, misappropriation of resources, or hostility to those individuals infected or those populations most at-risk of infection" (Amon, "Preventing the Further Spread of HIV/AIDS: The Essential Role of Human Rights," January 2006). Amon in a related audio commentary discusses how the HIV/AIDS pandemic is "grounded" in populations that are "socially marginalized and economically vulnerable," as well as the role of HIV testing in a comprehensive approach that recognizes the human rights "abuses that underlie the epidemic and address[es] them directly" (HRW Web site, January 2006).
Audio of the commentary is available online in Windows Media.