Cost Effectiveness

• Issues

  • Your best efforts have been put to this
  • No one has applied CE to this young an age group
  • Exploring “softer” approaches

• Draw Attention to

  • Newest programmes – high tech, costly, inappropriate in low-resource setting
  • Cost of inaction:
    • Increases in HIV, orphans, gender inequity, poverty
    • Decrease in life expectancy, economic progress, political and social stability
  • Stover et al. (7/02) Lancet
  • How this programme compares to others