Yet we need to spend countless untold billions upon billions of dollars to find a cure at the expense of research on other diseases.
The good news is the research is probably applicable to other diseases involving the immune system. Like the space program, even if you didn’t like paying for it, it probably did lead to advances in other areas. For example, Tang, now used to clean aging dishwashers.
More seriously, they never come out and say the one type of behavior that spreads HIV more effectively than any other type of behavior. And that’s true whether it’s done by straights or gays, though it’s still much more prevalent in gays. Between that particular behavior and bisexuality, that is probably responsible for the so called “heterosexual” AIDS epidemic on a particular continent that is always cited as evidence that we are all at risk.