CHANGE, amfAR, and the Global Health Justice and Governance Program in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health hosted an interactive webinar in June 2020 that explored the most recent impact data on the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy, otherwise known as the Global Gag Rule (GGR). Attendees engaged in an overview of the current state of GGR research, and a preview of forthcoming publications.
On July 15th, 2020, the African Sex Workers Alliance (ASWA) and CHANGE co-hosted an interactive webinar examining the Anti-Prostitution Loyalty Oath (APLO), a funding restriction that requires all recipients of PEPFAR funding to “have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution.” Speakers Grace Kamau and Beirne Roose-Snyder discuss the Supreme Court's most recent ruling on the APLO, delivered on June 29th, 2020, which upholds the APLO as it applies to foreign affiliates of U.S.-based organizations.
While the devastating impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten the health and rights of millions, it is important that we stay vigilant in monitoring and addressing the Trump administration’s attacks on the global human rights agenda. CHANGE, Council for Global Equality, Global Justice Center, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and Democracy Forward ...
CHANGE created the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Index: Grading U.S. Global Health Assistance to critically assess the U.S. government’s policies on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and hold it accountable to its commitments to SRHR by grading it annually. On December 12, 2018, CHANGE launched the SRHR Index at the District ...
On February 11, 2020, CHANGE released the investigative report, A Powerful Force: U.S. Global Health Assistance and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Malawi, at the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington, D.C. The report analyzes the successes and failures of in-country U.S. global health assistance documenting the testimony of healthcare organizations and private citizens. ...
CHANGE hosted a panel discussion at the National Press Club to celebrate the launch of our new report, "Prescribing Chaos in Global Health: The Global Gag Rule From 1984-2018." This groundbreaking report documents the harms of the global gag rule from 1984-2018, with new data on immediate impacts of Trump's global gag rule in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
On October 15, 2019, CHANGE honored Rep. Barbara Lee, Lilian Mworeko of the International Community of Women Living with HIV and AIDS East Africa, and Arent Fox LLP at their Agents of Change Awards, which coincided with CHANGE’s 25th anniversary.
