November 2, 2014 - Johannesburg - ABS News
By Lynsey Chutel - Associated Press
Namibia's Supreme Court upheld a ruling that health workers sterilized HIV-positive women without their consent, a human rights group said Monday.
The 2012 judgment that was upheld had found that health workers had coerced three HIV-positive mothers to sign sterilization consent forms they did not fully understand, and while in labor, the Southern Africa Litigation Center said.
The center said the ruling sends a message to the government to stop the practice in the southwestern African nation, and elsewhere. Continue reading...