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Abt-led Namibia Project Exceeds Goal for Male Circumcisions

Abt-led Namibia Project Exceeds Goal for Male Circumcisions

Project
VMMC is an integral component of the Government of the Republic of Namibia’s prevention approach to ending HIV and AIDS. Despite significant effort, VMMC coverage remains low. The population-based self-reported circumcision rate is 36.4 percent among…
EPA safer choice

EPA’s Safer Choice Program

Project
In a recent rebrand of their product labeling program, EPA unveiled the new name and logo for the Safer Choice Program. The Safer Choice Program helps consumers, businesses, and purchasers find products that perform and are safer for human health and the…
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Abt to Help Massachusetts Extract, Review and Analyze Opioid Overdose Data

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Identifying opioid overdose events in administrative records is not always straightforward. Not all people who overdose are taken to hospitals, and some overdoses are reversed by administering naloxone (Narcan), which can be done by first responders,…
social security

BOND: Benefit Offset National Demonstration

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Would national policy that pays partial disability benefits when earnings exceed the substantial gainful activity level encourage beneficiaries to work? Abt Global answered this question for the Social Security Administration (SSA) through our…
Evaluating Gates Foundation Agronomy Grants

Evaluating Gates Foundation Agronomy Grants

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded Abt Global to evaluate a selection of five agronomy grants designed by the foundation’s Agricultural Development (AgDev) team. The goal of the evaluation was to analyze results of the work of the soil…
TSPi Enhances the Efficiency of NOAA NMFS’s Consultation Process

Enhancing the Efficiency of NOAA NMFS’s Consultation Process

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TSPi designed, built, and implemented a central replacement case-management application, the Environmental Consultation Organizer (ECO), to handle submissions for consultations. The consultations can include the initial submission of project blueprints, feedback from NMFS, and more back-and-forth until final approval. 
Vehicles partially submerged in flooded area

National Flood Risk Characterization Tool

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Extreme weather volatility has increased the need for more effective and cost-efficient risk assessment tools. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers worked with Abt to address this challenge...
caregiver and patient

Helping Get the Kinks out of Home Health Prospective Payments

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Changes in the complex prospective payment system (PPS) for home health agencies (HHAs) may have led to HHA behavior changes that thwarted the modifications’ goals. As a result, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wanted an assessment of…
Evaluating the HomeStart Eviction Prevention Program

Evaluating the HomeStart Eviction Prevention Program

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HomeStart is a Boston-based nonprofit organization with a goal of eliminating homelessness due to eviction for non-payment, notably for families with subsidies and the working poor in Massachusetts. Eviction is costly not only for tenants but for…