We modeled the potential impact of novel male contraceptive methods on averting unintended pregnancies in the United States, South Africa, and Nigeria.
NEW YORK, Nov 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A record 290.6 million women and girls in the world's poorest nations are using modern methods of contraception, averting millions of unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions, a global family planning rights group said on Thursday.
Particularly, it is a set of preventive measures for reducing the risk of transmission of infectious diseases and use of active methods to avert biological terrorism or other disease outbreaks.
The project focused on Chile, with the goal of developing methods for anticipating "violent changes" and offering ways of averting possible rebellions.
HIV costs averted varied more than any other category of costs, due in part to the uncertainty in the probability of averting a new case of HIV.
Finally, the addition of the new, highly touted, "Resiliency Training" as a method to avert depression, PTSD and suicide completes the recipe for inadequacy, incompetence, and disaster in the treatment of mentally ill soldiers and veterans.
In line with WHO burden of disease estimation 6 7 and standard WHO-CHOICE methods, 13 14 DALYs averted were discounted (at 3%) and weighted for age (see also general appendix on bmj.com).
Using standard methods of cost-effectiveness analysis, we calculated the average cost per HIV case averted as the net cost of the intervention divided by the estimated number of HIV infections averted, where net cost refers to the intervention's cost minus the societal costs of HIV averted by the intervention [ 26].
We estimated FRP using two different metrics: cases of CHE averted and cases of poverty averted.
