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Increased AIDS deaths by 2014

    JOHANNESBURG

    A new report from the Actuarial Association of South Africa suggests that HIV/AIDS is still the single biggest cause of death in the country.

    Researchers from the institute estimate that some 900 South Africans could die daily of an AIDS-related illness over the next 12 months.

    According to the report, the death toll was expected to reach a peak of 1,100 people per day by 2014 due to a time frame of about 10 years between infection and death.

    The association's Leigh Johnson, told a local newspaper, Die Burger, the death toll would only peak then, after the rate of new infections reached its maximum levels in 1998.

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