Dignity denied : violations of the rights of HIV-positive women in Chilean health facilities.
Women account for roughly 50% of the 33.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. Although the total percentage of women living with HIV/AIDS has stabilized in the last few years, individual countries, including Chile, continue to see a rise in women's rates of infection. Social and cult...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Center for Reproductive Rights,
2010.
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| Online Access: | Connect to electronic version View Online |
| Summary: | Women account for roughly 50% of the 33.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. Although the total percentage of women living with HIV/AIDS has stabilized in the last few years, individual countries, including Chile, continue to see a rise in women's rates of infection. Social and cultural factors continue to expose Chilean women to a high risk of contracting HIV, and HIV-positive women in Chile encounter significant barriers to quality, acceptable healthcare, including reproductive healthcare. The experiences of the women interviewed in this report, along with anecdotal reports, indicate that the practice of coercive and forced sterilizations, as well as other discriminatory treatment in the healthcare sector, persists.--Provided by publisher |
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| Item Description: | Title from title screen (viewed on April 11, 2013) Preserved in the OCLC Digital Archive. Harvested from http://reproductiverights.org/sites/crr.civicactions.net/files/documents/chilereport_single_FIN.pdf on September 22, 2011. |
| Physical Description: | 48 pages : illustrations, digital, PDF file. Also available in print. |
| Format: | Mode of Access: World Wide Web. System Requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |