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This publication provides information on selected aspects of health and mortality covering such topics as: primary health care and the health care sector; levels and trends of mortality; child survival and health; women's health and safe motherhood; human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS); the epidemiological transition; health and mortality policies; and health and development. It contains an extensive set of annex tables providing indicators of the current demographic situation in major areas and regions, as well as data on population size and growth; population distribution; fertility and mortality levels; and health and mortality.