Inquirer Global Nation/: Namibian women with HIV tell court of forced sterilizations, by Christine Peters:
WINDHOEK, Namibia—In the throes of labor, a Namibian woman wasapproached by a nurse who handed her a document to sign, saying theform would authorize a Caesarean section.
"I was in labor at the state hospital when a nurse showed me a paperand said I must sign to allow a Caesarean section," she told a courtlast week, speaking through an interpreter.
"I did not know this was also for sterilization," said the woman, whose name is being protected by the court.
She only found out that she had been sterilized when she overheardtwo nurses discussing it in the hospital ward. Their reason was thatshe has HIV, which infects about 15 percent of Namibians between theages of 15 and 49. . . .