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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.livemint.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Investment: $1.8 billion, ROI in 15 years: $86 billion...</title><link>http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/labrats/archive/2008/08/26/investment-1-8-billion-roi-86-billion.aspx</link><description>Yes, that&amp;#39;s the trade-off California state government pulled off in its tobacco control program which ended in 2004. In a first ever study to quantifiably connect tobacco control to healthcare savings, published in today&amp;#39;s issue of PLoS Medicine</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007 SP2 (Build: 20611.960)</generator><item><title>Recent Links Tagged With "roi" - JabberTags</title><link>http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/labrats/archive/2008/08/26/investment-1-8-billion-roi-86-billion.aspx#8481</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:11:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">69a35da2-a32a-4865-9f9a-b94bb9d2309f:8481</guid><dc:creator>Recent Links Tagged With "roi" - JabberTags</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Pingback from &amp;nbsp;Recent Links Tagged With &amp;quot;roi&amp;quot; - JabberTags&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://blogs.livemint.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8481" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Investment: $1.8 billion, ROI in 15 years: $86 billion...</title><link>http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/labrats/archive/2008/08/26/investment-1-8-billion-roi-86-billion.aspx#2089</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:46:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">69a35da2-a32a-4865-9f9a-b94bb9d2309f:2089</guid><dc:creator>beach resort</dc:creator><description>oho that&amp;#39;s interesting...&lt;img src="http://blogs.livemint.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2089" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Investment: $1.8 billion, ROI in 15 years: $86 billion...</title><link>http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/labrats/archive/2008/08/26/investment-1-8-billion-roi-86-billion.aspx#1938</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:13:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">69a35da2-a32a-4865-9f9a-b94bb9d2309f:1938</guid><dc:creator>Seema</dc:creator><description>We surely need more professionalism in handling large public health programs, some kind of annual audit to see whether the public money spent is yielding any result. It&amp;#39;s not for nothing that Warren Buffet, who&amp;#39;s given away about $38 billion from his $44 billion fortune to the Gates Foundation for charity (mostly healthcare), calls philanthropy a &amp;quot;tougher game&amp;quot; than making money!&lt;img src="http://blogs.livemint.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1938" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Investment: $1.8 billion, ROI in 15 years: $86 billion...</title><link>http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/labrats/archive/2008/08/26/investment-1-8-billion-roi-86-billion.aspx#1934</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:05:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">69a35da2-a32a-4865-9f9a-b94bb9d2309f:1934</guid><dc:creator>Manu</dc:creator><description>Hope Mr Ramadoss sees this and takes some concrete steps, instead of locking horns with Bollywood. All such control measures should have a quantifiable feedback mechanism. India has a big AIDS control program. Wonder if we&amp;#39;ll ever know how much has been invested and what has been achieved?&lt;img src="http://blogs.livemint.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1934" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>