Impacts on Affected Countries

Tanzania

• Three clinics in hard-to-reach areas lost funding in 2001 and will risk closure in 2005 as a result of the gag rule.


• Two major family planning organizations have lost approximately $500,000 in USAID funds, prompting dramatic cutbacks in reproductive health services.


• Critical technical support was cut short before family planning services were successfully integrated into government facilities, jeopardizing the future of family planning in Tanzania.


• The lost of key staff and crucial training programs has intensified contraceptive supply problems.


• Funding constraints imposed by the gag rule limit the ability of leading reproductive health agencies to effectively address the HIV/AIDS epidemic.