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"I am a living example of having a good life..."
Yvonne a peer educator
Peer educator programmes amongst female sex workers is key to help ensure women are protected and informed about contraception and HIV. The Global Gag Rule means programmes like this are at risk of being closed due to the withdrawal of funding.
“They saved the life of me and my child”
HIV test being administered
ABUBEF is the Association Burundaise Pour Le Bien-Etre Familial, Burundi. The Global Gag Rule (GGR) means the clinic will see 39% of its funding cut. The GGR will heavily impact their HIV programmes and services. Monica is one voice of many, that will feel the loss for herself and her community.
“I am afraid what will happen when there will be no more projects like this one"
Peer Educator
Peer educator programmes are a vital bridge between sexual and reproductive knowledge and youth. The classes provide a safe, open and informed space for students to talk about sex. With the Global Gag Rule (GGR) peer educator programmes will be forced to close.
The Global Gag Rule: The impact in Burundi
A nurse administering a HIV test
On 23rd January 2017, President Trump signed an order reinstating the Global Gag Rule (GGR). An order that has denied millions of US dollars in vital funding to organisations who did not sign the order that targets abortion. IPPF visited Burundi to document the impact of the GGR on the ground.
Putting people first: providing health care despite funding and staff losses in Burundi
Kamayana Germaine, Clinic Manager at the ABUBEF clinic in Kirundo
The Association Burundaise pour le Bien-Etre Familial's (ABUBEF) provides vital integrated services to local communities, including contraception, prevention and treatment of HIV.The Global Gag Rule (GGR) threatens their very existence and are set to lose 39% of their funding.
Cyprus Family Planning Association
Cyprus Family Planning Association

The Cyprus Family Planning Association (CFPA) was founded in 1971 and became an IPPF Member Association in 1972. It runs a family planning clinic in Nicosia, providing a range of services, including HIV and AIDS testing. The facility draws on the help of a number of volunteer gynaecologists. Hundreds of young people provide peer group counselling, and also run a telephone helpline and workshops on sex education and sexuality awareness on a voluntary basis.

Association Burundaise pour le Bien-Etre Familial
logo of Association Burundaise pour le Bien-Etre Familial

Set up in 1991, the Association Burundaise pour le Bien-Etre Familial's (ABUBEF) original mission was to deliver family planning. Over 20 years later, the organization operates a large number of services across a broad range of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs, including prevention and management of HIV and AIDS, youth-friendly counselling and education, pre-marital counselling, and antenatal and post-natal care. 

Experiencing social and gender norms in Cyprus
Vassilis is an openly gay man from Cyprus, where he volunteered and worked for the Cyprus Family Planning Association (CFPA).

Vassilis is an openly gay man from Cyprus, where he volunteered and worked for the Cyprus Family Planning Association (CFPA). Conservative values have a significant influence over public opinion in Cyprus when it comes to LGBTI rights. Vassilis is an intern at the IPPF European Network office.