GLOBAL HEALTH ASSISTANCE: Awardees Declinations of U.S. Planned Funding Due to Abortion Related Restrictions

Abstract

The United States is the worlds largest donor of global health assistance. Congress provided about $8.7 billion for the Global Health Programs (GHP) account in fiscal year 2018. In 2017, the President reinstated and expanded a policy, which now requires foreign NGOs to agree that, as a condition of receiving global health assistance, they will not perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning or provide financial support during the award term to other foreign NGOs that conduct such activities. The Reagan administration first implemented this policy, known as the Mexico City Policy, in 1984, and subsequent administrations have rescinded and reinstated it. The Mexico City Policy initially applied only to family planning and reproductive health assistance, which received about $560 million of GHP funds in fiscal year 2018. Upon reinstating the policy, the Trump Administration renamed it PLGHA and applied it to all global health assistance to the extent allowable by law.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1100105

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  • United States Government Accountability Office

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