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Global Gag Rule

Under the U.S. Global Gag Rule, a foreign nongovernmental organization (NGO) may not receive American aid if it uses funding from any other source to

• perform or counsel abortions,
• provide post-abortion care, or
• advocate for legal abortion in its own country.

Read PPGG President and CEO Dian Harrison's statement about how this regressive policy is undermining family planning and reproductive health in Ethiopia and the world's poorest countries. Read More

Facts and Figures

Track the status of Ethiopian health, social, and economic issues we are working to affect. Read More

Ethics And africa

Reproductive Justice and Public Health: Building a Foundation to Raise the Status of Women
A paper presented by Dian J. Harrison at Ethics and Africa Conference 2006

The status of women in developing nations is inextricably tied to the availability of public reproductive health resources.  Public health providers are uniquely positioned to play a critical role in improving women's lives. Yet many barriers remain to providing and accessing reproductive health services around the globe.  Read More

Press Release

February 21, 2006
Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (PPGG) is kicking off a $250,000 fundraising campaign to build a new maternity waiting village in Hossana, Ethiopia.  Read More

Improving Reproductive Health for Women and Girls in Ethiopia.

In 2000, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (PPGG) partnered with the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) to exchange experience and ideas as well as organize around the global need for family planning.  EECMY provides maternal and child health and other services in the rural southwest areas of Ethiopia where health services are nearly absent.  A key area of the PPGG/ EECMY collaboration has been a successful community-based reproductive health program.  PPGG has provided technical assistance and medical supplies, as well as helped secure funding for this program in the wake of the global gag rule.  Read More