PROCAARE: Life Expectancy, Uganda

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[From the CDC AIDSNews Service. - Mod.] 

"AIDS Slashes African Life Expectancy"
United Press International (09/26/97); Dawley, Heidi
     AIDS may have reduced the average life expectancy by almost
16 years in some parts of Uganda, reports Britain's Medical
Research Council.  According to a five-year study published in
the current issue of the British Medical Journal, the life
expectancy for a resident of a rural community in southwest
Uganda has dropped from 58.3 years to 42.5 years because of the
AIDS epidemic.  Life expectancy rates had been improving in the
region before the onset of the epidemic; report co-author Andrew
Nunn said that AIDS' reversal of that trend is not unique to this
region of Uganda.  "This has implications for what is happening
in other parts of sub-Saharan Africa," he said.

David Radune <dradune@smtpinet.aspensys.com>

KEYWORDS:  Epidemiology, Life Expectancy, Sub-Sahara Africa, Uganda 
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