The phrase "avert about" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It means to avoid or prevent something from happening. Example: In order to avert about the spread of the virus, strict measures were put in place, including mandatory face masks and social distancing.
Plus avert about 111,000 pounds of CO2 emissions.
Spacing pregnancies at least 2 years apart can avert about 10% of infant deaths and 21% of deaths in children ages 1 4.
33 Facility training in basic resuscitation in LMICs, the first vital life-saving intervention, can avert about 30% of intrapartum-related neonatal deaths.
We estimated that in Nyanza, with an HIV prevalence of 20%, 17% in uncircumcised men, 26% in women [ 9, 17], 10 MCs avert about 2.5 HIV infections over 20 years [ 18], or 0.25 HIV infections averted per MC.
Another study in California found that the state's family-planning programme, which provided contraception to nearly 1m women in 2007, averted about 300,000 unintended pregnancies, over 100,000 abortions, and 38,000 miscarriages.Other studies show that proper birth spacing, for which contraception is an effective tool, leads to better perinatal outcomes.
Similarly in Asia, PSI averted about 2 million DALYs while MSI averted nearly 0.5 million DALYs.
In 2013, PSI's social franchising family planning services averted more than 2 million DALYs in Africa, and MSI averted about 1.6 million DALYs in the continent.
For the period from the beginning of September 1999 to the end of November 2003 (51 months in total), the model projected that the intervention averted about half of the HIV infections that would have occurred amongst CSWs and clients in Ahmedabad without the intervention.
Her letters and journals scissored away by her husband and daughter, who wanted to avert gossip about her difficult marriage, Abigail Alcott is of course the complex core of Louisa's novel "Little Women".
Until recently, the prevailing wisdom was that far from dying of cholera in 1893, the 53-year-old composer had committed suicide to avert publicity about his sexual activities.
First crisis averted, just about.
