"There's very little prevention money for the violence against women services community coming from government entities," said Dawn Dalton, executive director of Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment & Appeals Project.
Very little prevention work has been undertaken around adolescent drowning previously.
In the base case, most PWID treatments initiated in prison were interrupted due to the lack of continuity of care and short PWID incarceration times (∼4 months) in the UK. 25 27 Consequently, little prevention benefit was achieved from the prison intervention, with the results approaching the 'static' model.
But they know very little about prevention.
Despite their susceptibility to the cardiometabolic consequences of obesity, little obesity prevention research has been undertaken in these communities previously.
Little HIV prevention work has focused on older MSM, partly due to the widespread belief that older MSM are not sexually active [ 46].
The qualitative study revealed reasons for this including a perception that knee pain is part of normal ageing, little effective prevention and treatment is available and the use of medications causes side effects and dependency.
Little effective prevention is currently possible for human respiratory infections outside of attempting to avoid contact with or spreading infections, vaccination for influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia, and possibly specific nutritional supplementation [ 22].
Importantly, our intervention targets PWID with a risk of transmitting infection to others, whereas birth cohort screening is likely to identify infections among ex-injectors and non-injecting populations, which will have little primary prevention impact.
Finally, there has been little falls prevention intervention programs conducted in Malaysia, and there is some evidence to suggest that interventions effective in Western countries (where the majority of falls prevention research has been carried out) may not always be translatable to Asian countries [ 44].
Little effective prevention is currently possible outside of two strategies: attempting to avoid contact with or spreading of infectious agents in aerosols, droplets, or surfaces, such as by hand washing, avoiding infected individuals, avoiding face-touching, and covering sneezes; and vaccination for influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia.
