ReviewBMJ global health2019
'Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance'? Towards a framework for assessing the health systems impact of the expanded Global Gag Rule.
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- U.S. global health aid policy and family planning in sub-Saharan Africa.Science advances · 2023Article
- Postabortion and safe abortion care coverage, capacity, and caseloads during the global gag rule policy period in Ethiopia and Uganda.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Beyond abortion: impacts of the expanded global gag rule in Kenya, Madagascar and Nepal.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Impact of the Trump Administration's Expanded Global Gag Rule Policy on Family Planning Service Provision in Ethiopia.Studies in family planning · 2022Article
- US foreign aid restrictions and maternal and children's health: Evidence from the "Mexico City Policy".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Foreign assistance or attack? Impact of the expanded Global Gag Rule on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Kenya.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2020Article
- Foreign ideology vs. national priority: impacts of the US Global Gag Rule on Nepal's sexual and reproductive healthcare system.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2020Article
- Slowing progress: the US Global Gag Rule undermines access to contraception in Madagascar.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2020Article
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Abstract
During his first week in office, US President Donald J Trump issued a presidential memorandum to reinstate and broaden the reach of the Mexico City policy. The Mexico City policy (which was in place from 1985-1993, 1999-2000 and 2001-2009) barred foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that received US government family planning (FP) assistance from using US funds or their own funds for performing, providing counselling, referring or advocating for safe abortions as a method of FP. The renamed policy, Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA), expands the Mexico City policy by applying it to most US global health assistance. Thus, foreign NGOs receiving US global health assistance of nearly any type must agree to the policy, regardless of whether they work in reproductive health. This article summarises academic and grey literature on the impact of previous iterations of the Mexico City policy, and initial research on impacts of the expanded policy. It builds on this analysis to propose a hypothesis regarding the potential impact of PLGHA on health systems. Because PLGHA applies to much more funding than it did in its previous iterations, and because health services have generally become more integrated in the past decade, we hypothesise that the health systems impacts of PLGHA could be significant. We present this hypothesis as a tool that may be useful to others' and to our own research on the impact of PLGHA and similar exogenous overseas development assistance policy changes.
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