The greatest number of people to contract HIV/AIDS in any one year since the start of the epidemic was seen in 2003, reveals the UN's annual AIDS report.
About 4.8 million people were newly infected with AIDS in 2003. And globally the number of people with AIDS is continuing to grow, warns the report, from 35 million in 2001 to 38 million in 2003.
"In 2003, almost five million people became newly infected with HIV, the greatest number in any one year since the beginning of the epidemic," says the report.
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