Harvard School of Public Health: Latin American women face forced sterilization

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http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/latin-american-women-face-forced-sterilization/

Under pressure: Latin American women face forced sterilization


July 23, 2014 ? Tamil Kendall, a Canadian Institutes of Health Research postdoctoral researcher with the Women and Health Initiative and a Takemi Fellow in HSPH?s Department of Global Health and Population, is an expert in gender and HIV in Latin America who worked in the region for over a decade. She is lead author of a new four-country study that found that health care providers in Latin America are pressuring women living with HIV to be sterilized, and are sometimes even sterilizing them without consent...