“Our goal is to inform decision makers about the effects of various choices,” Ropiek says. “These findings are theoretical, but they give us the hard numbers to move beyond the debate.”
Funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supported the study.
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Also contributing to the study were Dr. Lynette Denny of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, Dr. Louise Kuhn, of the School of Public Health at Columbia University, and Dr. Amy Pollack of the EngenderHealth program in New York.