At the end of 2003,
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an estimated 1,039,000 to 1,185,000 persons in the United States were living with HIV/AIDS [
1
]. In 2006, 35,314 new cases of HIV/AIDS in adults, adolescents, and children were diagnosed in the 33 states with long-term, confidential name-based HIV reporting [
2
]. New HIV/AIDS diagnoses tell us how many people have been diagnosed with HIV or AIDS, but do not necessarily represent new HIV infections because a person may have been infected in years past but received a diagnosis in 2006.
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CDC plans to release the estimated number of new HIV infections this year.