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| | AEGiS-AFP News: HIV/AIDS cost S. Africa 70 billion dollars in decade to 2002: ILO - July 13, 2004 |
 | | The ILO, in an analysis released in Bangkok at the weekend during the 15th International AIDS Conference, said South Africa lost a staggering 72 billion dollars between 1992 and 2002 mainly due to deaths, absenteeism and lower productivity. |
 | | AIDS activists say about 600 people die every day of the disease in South Africa, where HIV affects one in nine people, or 5.3 million, one of the highest rates in the world. |
 | | "In South Africa, benefits usually include group life insurance, pensions and medical coverage," it said, adding that fresh recruitment and the training of new employees was an additional strain. |
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