Has the cure for HIV been discovered?

Isn't there a pill called RED that rebuilds your immune system or something like that to help prevent death from aids?
In my opinion that's almost considered a cure, certainly a giant step, but not quite the full thing.

I'm curious why there is such an outcry to find a cure for a disease that is 100% preventable? Wouldn't the billions of taxpayer dollars be better spent preventing diseases like malaria, that kill far more people every year, and whose victims contract the disease through no fault of their own?

I have been hearing a lot about this, and they have had positive results on a couple of occassions thus far.

However....


....have any of you ever seen what happens when a recipient rejects the bone marrow that was donated? It is not a nice death.

One more however....

There is a new process being used that could all but eliminate bone marrow rejection

This ties in with my post Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant

whats the connection between Cancer and Aids though? would be quite ironic that the two big Human killing disese's would end up help killing of one or the other,

or maybe a rection in the body to having both HIV(aids) and a form of cancer

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Me and a friend used to always say get rid of aids by getting cancer.

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That's a good point. Strange that I have never thought of that before. Probably would be a better use of tax payers money. But if you say that we should stop looking for a cure to HIV there will be an outcry. I doubt that is would ever get through as there would be too many protests.

-Cauch1