Rebecca Schleifer, advocate for Human Rights Watch's HIV/AIDS program and a general specialist on the issue, monitors human rights abuses linked to HIV/AIDS. She has conducted research and written reports on a variety of HIV/AIDS-related human rights issues, including: government restrictions on access to HIV/AIDS information for youth and injection drug users; and, access to HIV prevention and other post-rape services to survivors of sexual violence; and other abuses against people living with and at high risk for HIV/AIDS in the United States, Bangladesh, South Africa, Jamaica, Ukraine and Thailand. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Schleifer worked with migrant farm workers in Florida and Washington, litigating cases on wages and working conditions, and conducting advocacy regarding pesticide issues. Schleifer has an A.B. from Harvard-Radcliffe College, and an M.P.H. and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She speaks Spanish.

Human Rights Watch Reports

Rhetoric and Risk: Human Rights Abuses Impeding Ukraine's Fight Against HIV/AIDS (March 2, 2006)

Hated to Death: Homophobia, Violence, and Jamaica's HIV/AIDS Epidemic (November 16, 2004)

Deadly Delay: South Africa's Efforts to Prevent HIV in Survivors of Sexual Violence (March 4, 2004)

Articles

"Vasciannie's Error," Jamaica Gleaner, May 26, 2006

"Mass AIDS Plan Should Learn from Post-Rape HIV-Prevention Program," THISDAY, March 5, 2004