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07-07-2009, 08:44 PM
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow
American tax dollars are being used in Namibia to sterilize HIV-positive women against their wills.
LifeSiteNews.com reports dozens of women infected with HIV were forced or coerced into receiving tubal ligations because they are HIV-positive. The women were sterilized under government-funded public health system at PEPFAR-funded hospitals. Steven Mosher, who heads the Population Research Institute, reacts to those reports.
"It seems to me the worst form of prejudice and bias against AIDS victims that they should be denied the right to have children by being sterilized..., in many cases, without their foreknowledge and consent," he says. "And it should outrage all Americans that this is being done with U.S. money. It's being done with what are called PEPFAR funds -- The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Reduction.
PEPFAR is the multi-billion dollar fund to fight AIDS in Third World countries. Namibia's Ministry of Health receives tens of millions of PEPFAR dollars every year.
Human-rights groups in Namibia believe the victim count is far more than just a few dozen. In a campaign a few years ago in Peru, about 400,000 indigenous women were sterilized without their knowledge or with threats of being denied food and medical assistance.
American tax dollars are being used in Namibia to sterilize HIV-positive women against their wills.
LifeSiteNews.com reports dozens of women infected with HIV were forced or coerced into receiving tubal ligations because they are HIV-positive. The women were sterilized under government-funded public health system at PEPFAR-funded hospitals. Steven Mosher, who heads the Population Research Institute, reacts to those reports.
"It seems to me the worst form of prejudice and bias against AIDS victims that they should be denied the right to have children by being sterilized..., in many cases, without their foreknowledge and consent," he says. "And it should outrage all Americans that this is being done with U.S. money. It's being done with what are called PEPFAR funds -- The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Reduction.
PEPFAR is the multi-billion dollar fund to fight AIDS in Third World countries. Namibia's Ministry of Health receives tens of millions of PEPFAR dollars every year.
Human-rights groups in Namibia believe the victim count is far more than just a few dozen. In a campaign a few years ago in Peru, about 400,000 indigenous women were sterilized without their knowledge or with threats of being denied food and medical assistance.