Background: Forced Sterilization of Women with HIV/AIDS
26th July 2010, 12:00 pm
At least forty HIV-positive women in Namibia have indicated they were subjected to forced or coerced sterilization at public hospitals, violating their rights to life, dignity, family and freedom from degrading treatment and discrimination guaranteed under Namibia’s Constitution. These women comprised nearly twenty percent of a group of 230 HIV positive women in education programs run by the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) in Namibia. SALC and ICW have assisted the Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) in preparing fifteen cases of coerced or forced sterilization in public hospitals for litigation. Three of these cases were heard in Namibia’s High Court this June. In each of these cases, the plaintiff is seeking 1 million Namibian dollars for violations of her constitutional rights.

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