Impacts on Affected Countries

Ghana

• A loss of US$200,000 in funding has forced a major family planning organization to significantly reduce its rural outreach activities.


• Approximately 1,700 community-based agents have been denied the support needed to provide important family planning services to rural areas.


• Three clinics serving peri-urban and rural communities lost funding in 2003. While these clinics remain open, the nursing staff has been reduced by more than 40 percent, severely limiting the number of clients served.


• Restrictions imposed by the gag rule have terminated key partnerships and abruptly interrupted an innovative adolescent reproductive health program.


• The gag rule has dramatically limited the vital coordination of HIV/AIDS with family planning and reproductive health services.