In that respect, the experts say, a decade of falling life spans, so far unaddressed, is not encouraging.
That finding is largely driven by falling life expectancy because of AIDS, which the United Nations Development Program set at 48.8 years for South Africa in this year's calculation.
The burden of the disease has strained the public health system here and led to falling life expectancies and ballooning costs for treatment, prompting health officials to act more aggressively to reduce the pace of new H.I.V. infections.
In Africa, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has been the major cause of falling life expectancy.
The sun will rise and set, beauty will dawn, darkness will fall, life will continue..
Despite a falling life expectancy at birth (14), we have seen an increase in the older population.
I have risen and I have fallen in life, and I never gave up.
Above the falls, life was significantly different.
He had missed the routine of military life and fallen into a life of petty crime.
Blood flows, people fall screaming, life ends.
