African women’s health advocates fear Trump may reduce Funding for Birth Control

Sithulisiwe Moyo, 19, a mother of a baby girl, waited two hours to obtain birth control tablets from a tent set up in a low-income neighborhood outside of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.

Moyo has the best chance of realizing her desire of going back to school because to the outreach clinic in Epworth.

However, the US government, the biggest health giver in the world, may soon stop providing the free service.

The so-called global gag rule, which prohibits the use of US foreign aid to perform abortions or give abortion information, is likely to be invoked in January by US President-elect Donald Trump, just as he did during his first term.

According to Pester Siraha, director of Population Services Zimbabwe, an affiliate of MSI Reproductive Choices, an NGO that defends abortion rights in 36 countries, women’s health activists are “uneasy” after Trump’s triumph.

Even when they are using non-US government funds for such operations, the policy requires international NGOs that receive financing from the US government to commit to refraining from any actions linked to abortion, including presenting it as a family planning option.

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