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HSPH postdoc leads alarming health care study

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Tamil Kendall, a Canadian Institutes of Health Research postdoctoral researcher with the Women and Health Initiative and a Takemi Fellow in HSPH’s Department of Global Health and Population, is an expert in gender and HIV in Latin America who worked in the region for over a decade. She is lead author of a new four-country study that found that health care providers in Latin America are pressuring women living with HIV to be sterilized, and are sometimes even sterilizing them without consent.

Read an interview with Kendall at the link below.