HIV is incredibly profitable to drug companies!!
There was a HIV vaccine in human trials set to be released to the market. Then they came out with truvada to take daily to reduce HIV in high risk populations. $1300 a month! Medicare and Medicaid pay it. The vaccine was hidden in the vault with the cure for cancer.
HIV positive patients meds cost around $20k a year. They average 3 hospitalizations a year. They get fungal bacterial and viral infections often. They get wounds and sores that take forever to heal.
All on the taxpayers dime because a HIV diagnosis gets you disability. It used to be considered a fatal disease and patients got the highest $$ pay.
HIV patients, mainly gay men have frequent unprotected sex with other HIV people since they already have it. But then they get multiple strains which are harder to treat.
I have had patients get it from heterosexual sex, blood transfusions, needle sticks to health care workers, IV use.
It is a terrible disease and continues to spread, however it doesn't get much news coverage anymore. It spread badly in China through blood transfusions in the past few years. It spreads in blood transfusions in the US also. It costs money to screen blood, just like a UOA. Thats why they have people fill out a questionaire. That is the main screen for HIV.
Also, HIV has brought back tuberculosis, which was just about gone. TB is spreading in the HIV community due to compromised immune system, and frequent antibiotic use and mutations.