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Her Rights Initiative and Positive Women’s Network believe that by not addressing the issue of forced sterilisation, the government continues failing HIV-positive women in South Africa whose rights have been violated for so long. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News

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HIV positive women who were forcibly sterilised demand justice

By Kaylynn Palm

In February last year, the Commission for Gender Equality released a report detailing how 48 HIV-positive women were duped and forced into being sterilised in...

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