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The NYT and WP run inside stories on a fresh UN finding that in Africa, AIDS is cutting life expectancy and will reduce the continent's population within the next ten to fifteen years.
[ 22 ] The comprehensive interview and long-term follow-up undertaken as part of homeopathic case management increases patient-doctor interaction and likely enhances expectancy and placebo effects.
It is, in general, difficult to predict death in a particular patient because of individual variations and since "we do not know the exact borderline between life and death" [ 27 ] . To a certain extent the point in time to accept dying - at least in medical institutions - depends on empirically based decisions to abstain from potentially life-sustaining interventions e.g. pharmacological, technical or other artificial support of organ function "to prevent death" at least for limited moments of time [ 28 29 ] . In our internal guidelines we grouped patients according to the staging system of Jonen-Thielemann into rehabilitative, preterminal, terminal and final phases [ 30 ] . With relation to intentions of care, life expectancy according to the progress of disease and empirical statistics, consideration on perhaps burdensome diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and communication strategies with patients and proxies a systematic staging of patients in palliative care on expected outcome seems to be useful.
Life expectancy for its 300,000 residents: 47 years for women, 42 years for men.
And that more than makes up for the collapse of the health-care system, the declining life expectancy, the resurgent anti-Semitism, the militant nationalism, and the fighting in Chechnya."