US-funded hospitals in Namibia charged with involuntary sterilization of AIDS patients
June 26, 2009
Namibian women suffering from AIDS have complained that they were sterilized without their consent in hospitalized subsidized by a US aid program, the LifeSite News service reports in an exclusive investigative story. Public hospitals in Namibia, supported by the American PEPFAR relief program, have allegedly been coerced to undergo tubal ligations. A lawyer representing dozens of women who report that they were sterilized says that all of the patients were HIV-positive.
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