BBC: Why do Indian women go to sterilization camps?
Ravi Verma, head of ICRW’s Asia Regional Office, joins BBC’s World Have Your Say panel disucssion to explore what circumstance may have led to the deaths of more than a dozen women who underwent a sterilization procedure in the Chhattisgarh state of India. Verma attributes lack of knowledge and access to comphrensive sexual health services, as well as unsafe procedures and spaces, as key problems that lead to high levels of mortality among many low-income women who undergo sterilization.