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Reviewing the literature, the author notes that pregnancy and childbearing during adolescence is generally associated with greater risk of clandestine abortion, delivery complications, and low birth-weight infants and higher rates of maternal mortality. From an overview of current trends in fertility in the less developed countries, the author suggests that adolescents are at high risk of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Furthermore, that although fertility has been declining in the past 20-30 years in most of Africa, the fertility gap between the rich and poor has widened
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A re-look at recent statistics on mortality in the context of HIV/AIDS with particular reference to South Africa
Since the outbreak of the HIV epidemic in the 1980s, various organisations and researchers have produced statistics on HIV/AIDS including HIV prevalence, incidence, number of AIDS cases, AIDS-related mortality as well as life expectancy at birth in the context of HIV/AIDS. Until recently HIV-prevalence statistics as well as models projecting the impact of HIV/AIDS utilised HIV-prevalence statistics based on women attending antenatal clinics as population-based prevalence statistics were non-existent. Among others, the extrapolation of HIV-prevalence statistics from surveillance sites to the general population has been questioned. Recent statistics on HIV-prevalence from population-based surveys strongly suggest that HIV-prevalence in many countries may not be as high as earlier estimated and projected. In addition, model estimates of HIV/AIDS-prevalence and impact on mortality often use conventional model life tables such as the Coale-Demeny Regional, UN, and Brass standard life tables, which in the case of South Africa give female life expectancy at birth plummeting from about 65 years in the mid-1990s to around 49-50 years in 2005. The standard life tables often employed in these estimates do not take account of the 'hump' in the mortality curve due to AIDS-related deaths as these standard mortality schedules were developed prior to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Given this background, this paper
provides a critical look at recent statistics on infant mortality rates and life expectancies at birth in the context of HIV/AIDS in parts of Southern and Eastern Africa with particular reference to South Africa.
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A re-examination of levels and differential in fertility in South Africa from recent evidence
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Demographic impact of HIV/AIDS on ageing on South Africa's population
Paper presented at the Union for African Population Studies, HSRC and the Department of Social Development Conference on Ageing in Africa, Johannesburg, 18-20 Augus
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An examination of recent census and survey data on mortality within the context of HIV/AIDS
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Impact of HIV/AIDS on mortality and the structure of South Africa's population
Paper presented at the XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 11-16 Jul
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Do antenatal data exaggerate the demographic and epidemiological impact of HIV/AIDS on South Africa's population?
Paper presented at the 5th Joint Population Conference of the Demographic Association of southern Africa, Durban, 6-8 Octobe
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An evaluation of age-sex distributions of South Africa's population within the context of HIV/AIDS
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Potential use of 2001 census demographic variables in decision-making, planning and development
Commissioned by Statistics South Afric