Is Routine Testing Mandatory or Voluntary?

Is routine testing mandatory or voluntary?

Scaling up HIV prevention: why routine or mandatory testing is not feasible for sub-Saharan Africa.

a National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. Correspondence to AD Asante (e-mail: [email protected]). doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.037671 (Submitted: 16 October 2006 – Final revised version received: 6 February 2007 – Accepted: 13 February 2007) Introduction Global HIV incidence may have peaked1 but calls for scaling up prevention have not dimi...

Is mandatory voting better than voluntary voting?

We investigate the welfare effects of policies that increase voter turnout in costly voting models. In a generalized costly voting model, we show that if the electorate is sufficiently large, then increasing voter turnout is generically efficient. Increasing turnout in small elections is only inefficient if the electorate is evenly divided or if there is already almost complete voter participat...

Reporting elder abuse: should it be mandatory or voluntary?

The Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Should It Be Mandatory or Voluntary?