Making Change Through Research and Policy Analysis: Exposing the Global Gag Rule

CHANGE’s groundbreaking report, "Prescribing Chaos in Global Health," documents the harms of the Global Gag Rule from 1984 to 2018, with new data exposing the harmful impacts of the Trump administration’s expanded Global Gag Rule in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

This report maps the development and implementation of the Global Gag Rule from 1984 to the present and outlines the policy’s impact on both organizations and programs that receive U.S. foreign assistance and those that do not. The report also traces the politics that drive the policy, the human rights implications of the policy, and the policy's impact to overall health systems.

It provides evidence that:

The report concludes with recommendations for action by organizations, funders, researchers, and policymakers, including a decisive appeal to abolish the Global Gag Rule forever because of its destructive impact on health and human rights around the world.