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When the first AIDS cases were reported in the U.S. in 1981, few of us could have predicted what the epidemic would look like now. In a plenary discussion at the 14th Retrovirus Conference [Abstract 63], Harold Jaffe described the current state of HIV/AIDS in the U.S.
According to the latest CDC estimates (from the end of 2005), nearly 1 million AIDS cases have now been reported in the U.S., with approximately 550,000 deaths. The annual number of new AIDS cases has been rising steadily and recently topped 45,000. Determining how many people in the U.S. are living with HIV infection and describing their characteristics is difficult; however, data from the 33 states that have name-based reporting suggest that 25% of all HIV-infected people are…