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Africa: HIV/AIDS Threatening Life Expectancy - UN Report
Nov 9, 2006
by UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
Falling life expectancy is one of the most visible effects of HIV/AIDS in many nations and has reversed human development across a large part of Southern Africa, according to a new UN report.
In sub-Saharan Africa, life expectancy today is lower than it was three decades ago. "Several countries in Southern Africa have suffered catastrophic reversals: 20 years in Botswana, 16 in Swaziland and 13 in Lesotho and Zambia," the report said.
The annual Human Development Report 2006 noted that while most people in Southern African countries with relatively stable economies were not expected to reach the age of 50, the situation was even more worrying in Zimbabwe, where the economy was shrinking rapidly.
Copyright 2006 UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
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category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Olga Zhuykova on 9 November 2006
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