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Acknowledgments

This report was written by Rebecca Schleifer, researcher with the HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Program, based on research conducted by Rebecca Schleifer and Jane Buchanan of the Europe and Central Asia Division at Human Rights Watch. It was reviewed by Joseph Amon, director of the HIV/AIDS Program; Rachel Denber, Diederik Lohman, and Jane Buchanan, deputy director, senior researcher, and researcher with the Europe and Central Asia Division; Corinne Carey, researcher with the U.S. Program; James Ross, senior legal advisor, and Ian Gorvin, consultant in the Program Office of Human Rights Watch. Veronika Szente Goldston, advocacy director in the Europe and Central Asia Division of Human Rights Watch, helped formulate report recommendations. Many helpful comments were provided by Jonathan Cohen of the HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Program. Production assistance was provided by Jennifer Nagle, Andrea Holley, Veronica Matushaj, and Fitzroy Hepkins. This report was translated into Ukrainian by Inga Kononenko and into Russian by Igor Gerbich.

A number of experts and nongovernmental organizations in Ukraine and elsewhere assisted with this research. Human Rights Watch gratefully acknowledges staff members of the All-Ukrainian Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS; the Ukrainian Harm Reduction Association; Life Plus and Faith, Hope, Love in Odessa; Way Home in Odessa and Ilyochovsk; Mongoose in Kherson; Exit, Blogodynist, and Time for Life in Mykolaiv; Virtus in Dnipropetrovsk; and Club Eney in Kyiv for their invaluable assistance and courageous work. We also thank staff members of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine, the International Renaissance Fund, and the International Harm Reduction Develop program of the Open Society Institute for technical assistance and advice in the course of this work.

Most of all, we thank the drug users, former drug users, sex workers, and people living with HIV/AIDS who were courageous enough to share their experiences with us.

Human Rights Watch gratefully acknowledges the John M. Lloyd Foundation and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation for their generous support of this work.




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