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South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - January 20, 2003
In five years' time, HIV prevalence would average between 25 and 30 percent, according to the findings of a study by the BMR's Prof Carel van Aardt.
About 40 percent of adult deaths in 2000/1 were Aids-related, compared to nine percent in 1995/6, he said.
Van Aardt estimated that in the age group 15 to 49 years, about 500000 people in Gauteng and 350000 in KwaZulu-Natal would have died due to Aids-related diseases by 2006.
The virus would also have a significant effect on life expectancy, he said. Van Aardt projected that due to HIV/Aids, life expectancy at birth by 2010 would be 33 years in KwaZulu-Natal and 34 years in Mpumalanga.
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