http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/04/02/cure-for-hiv-reportedly-3-years-away.html
I dont personally know anyone with HIV. I have known more people than I care to who had cancer and who lost the fight.
Still curing any major disease should give everyone hope. Mankind can at times be the instrument of its own destiny.
Actually, HIV is already cured, a campaign similar to polio is perfectly doable.
Someone I knew that was a chemical engineer, he married is boyfriend that had HIV.
He said that with the combinations of drugs and how powerful they are, if he took PREP there was no realistic chance of infection.
Saying he didn't feel like that route, but that no-condom is possible with todays medication with a infected partner. There are some talks about being more relaxed about who can get PREP.
https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep.html
So ask for PrEP if you are traveling somewhere with high risk, it's like birth control for HIV incase you get raped, stabbed or exposed in other ways. Infection risks is highest when one or both have a reduced immune system, tearing and wounds increases it aby a lot. Between strong healthy individuals where one has HIV, the risk is actually very low. With AIDS or being otherwise compromised vulnerable, the risk increases. So comfort seeking behaviour when being sick and so on his a huge risk factor.
Lots of stuff with HIV that is strange, like there being several types some of which are more common in the origin countries where being infected by both makes it less dangerous, kind of like with HEP.
Possible to get rid of HIV in the western world with mandated testing, given how invasive airport security is on so many levels.
Mandating tests from risk areas when landing in your home country isn't impossible and a rather quick thing.
Then you have the whole range of stigma and the religious propganda about God's punishment that may the only reason why it's not done.
This and the "HIV" business becoming regulated and put to an end.
Be more scared of antibiotic resistant things.