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Ipas is working to keep the Global Gag Rule, also known as Mexico City policy, out of third world countries by documenting the suffering it inflicts on women and girls around the world. This ruling makes it difficult for women to get safe and effective abortions in third world countries, sub-Saharan African countries are most effected by this. At the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo former official with Ipas, Barbara Crane, spoke out against this policy,"We need stronger health systems and we need integrated service delivery. One of the problems is that family planning has often been kept separate from the problems is that family planning has often been kept separate from other health service delivery and verticalized, and abortion even more so. How do you break the cycle of unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion? You need to help women have access to services... All it [the global gag rule] does is marginalize women who have a clear and desperate need for these services and makes it harder for them to get access and it stigmatizes providers." As of 2019 Ipas has reported that staff in Africa and Asia are reporting back that this policy is having a negative effect on local women to have safe abortions due to lack of information and funding. Other problems in the Global South that have been reported by Ipas as of early 2019 are grantees are uneducated on this ruling and unknowingly accept which hinders their work on abortion, grantees are concluding their support with Ipas due to misunderstanding, and Bangladesh even stopped providing contraceptives which lead to stock-outs in some private facilities. Category:Global Gag Rule