News/Views

Global Gag Rule

Less than 72 hours after taking office President Obama overturned the harmful Global Gag Rule.

With the overturning of the “global gag rule,” millions more women around the world will be able to access critical basic services including safe abortion and birth control. No longer will health care providers be forced to choose between receiving critical family planning funding and restricting the health care services and counseling they provide to women. Expanding access to services like birth control, annual exams, and safe abortion will help save women’s lives.  Read More

Facts and Figures

Track the status of Ethiopian health, social, and economic issues we are working to affect. Read More

Ethics And africa

The status of women in developing nations is inextricably tied to the availability of public reproductive health resources.  Public health providers are uniquely positioned to play a critical role in improving women's lives. Yet many barriers remain to providing and accessing reproductive health services around the globe.  Read More

Press Release

February 21, 2006
Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (PPGG) is kicking off a $250,000 fundraising campaign to build a new maternity waiting village in Hossana, Ethiopia.  Read More

Improving Reproductive Health for Women and Girls in Ethiopia.

In 2000, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (PPGG) partnered with the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) to exchange experience and ideas as well as organize around the global need for family planning.  EECMY provides maternal and child health and other services in the rural southwest areas of Ethiopia where health services are nearly absent.  A key area of the PPGG/ EECMY collaboration has been a successful community-based reproductive health program.  PPGG has provided technical assistance and medical supplies, as well as helped secure funding for this program in the wake of the global gag rule.  Read More