Impact of the global gag rule on women's contraceptive use and reproductive health outcomes in Ethiopia: a pre-post and difference-in-difference analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the impacts of the Protecting Life through Global Health Assistance policy (otherwise known as the expanded global gag rule (GGR)) on women's sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in Ethiopia. The GGR prohibits all non-US non-governmental organisations (NGOs) receiving US Government global health funding from providing, referring or advocating for abortion.

Design

Pre-post analysis and difference-in-difference analysis.

Setting

Six regions of Ethiopia (Tigray, Afar, Amhara, Oromiya, SNNPR and Addis Ababa).

Participants

Panel of 4909 reproductive-age women recruited from the Performance Monitoring for Accountability 2018 survey, administered face-to-face surveys in 2018 and 2020.

Measures

We assessed impacts of the GGR on contraceptive

SUBMITTER: Sully EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10163537 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature