Fig. 5From: Setting priorities in health research using the model proposed by the World Health Organization: development of a quantitative methodology using tuberculosis in South Africa as a worked exampleAmended model of TB DALYs for South Africa. South Africa has an average DALY per person (pp) score of 1.48 and absolute disease burden of 682,322. Therefore, 0.12 DALYs pp and a disease burden of 722 are unavertable with existing interventions, but are too small to see at this scale. South Africa is currently averting a DALY pp figure of 13.47 and an absolute disease burden of between 747,595 and 1,354,915Back to article page