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For this woman and millions of others, AIDS is the shadow that never fades. South Africa features the world's highest number of people infected with HIV/AIDS -- some 4.7 million. Around 600 South Africans are estimated to die from the disease daily. That rate is already cutting into South Africa's economic productivity. By 2010, the country's GDP is expected to be 17 percent lower than it would have been in the absence of an AIDS epidemic, an ING Barings Bank study found. To hedge investors' bets, one recent proposal would have companies listed on the Johannesburg stock exchange, the world's tenth largest, indicate their employees' rate of HIV/AIDS infection.
Photo: Lori Waselchuk/Galbe.com
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