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Of those, about 13%, or 1 in 8, did not know they were infected. In 2015, 39,513 people were diagnosed with HIV infection in the United States. In the United States, 6,721 people died from HIV and AIDS in 2014. In 2015, 18,303 people were diagnosed with AIDS. Since the epidemic began in the early 1980s, 1,216,917 people have been diagnosed with AIDS. One in four people living with HIV in the United States are women. The vast majority of newly diagnosed HIV-positive women contracted the virus through heterosexual sex.