The International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH), a non-profit, lost it's funding earlier this year to help sex workers in the Tete province. ICRH would help sex workers become peer educators so they could help educate women about their rights and their health. The organization wouldn't sign Trump's expanded Mexico City Policy which now not only affects reproductive health funding but now includes almost all health sectors including those for HIV/AIDs and sex workers. Since ICRH has been defunded, there has been another local organization that has stepped in, but they don't understand the issues as well, and the peer educators find it harder to work with them. Abortion was only decriminalized recently in Mozambique, and no clinics even offer the services as of yet, but ICRH decided they couldn't sign the policy because they had to be able to tell women about all their family planning options. Most of their work was with educating and helping sex workers, all programs which are now suffering because of the cuts. They applied to other donors for funding and were planning to restart some of their programs soon but during the interm period a lot of sex workers said that there were more problems and some women had greatly suffered from the lack of the NGO presence.
