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UN: Average Life Span Drops To 33 In Sierra Leone

HeadlineJul 16, 2004

A new United Nations reports has found that the AIDS epidemic has caused life expectancy in some African countries to drop to just 33 years. For the seventh year in a row Sierra Leone had the shortest life expectancy. Africa is home to about 25 million of the estimated 38 million people infected with HIV/ AIDS.

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