In the Human Rights Watch report, 'Preventing the Further Spread of HIV/AIDS: The Essential Role of Human Rights', 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".