Even if you believe that it’s a primarily gay disease, there’s a lot of spouses of guys who are in the closet who get it.
Also, drug use and blood transfusions are a vector. Yes, even today.
It is a disease of promiscous sex.
See below link:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_number_of_sex_partners_a_gay_man_has_in_a_lifetime
Any private concern that wants to sink its funds into looking for an HIV cure, or for a cure of anything, that’s wonderful. May they succeed and be rewarded a hundred times over in the business they will get. The big debate comes when Uncle Sam is asked to subsidize things, or government entities are asked to force the cure on everybody.
Someone complained about cancer. Cancer is a tricky thing, really a host of different conditions with one common outcome of unwanted and uncontrollable cell replication. It’s a cliche to hear about how many cancers have been cured in mice where the treatment is then found to be a dud in humans. It will be reined in through a multitude of small conquests, not one large blanket conquest.