Medication isn't the problem. If you live in the developed world you have no problem getting the medication (Well unless you live in the US where it's not free), its the fact that HIV is a problem in the developing world where people don't have the money for the medication. The search for a cure for HIV isn't to fix the problem in the west, it's to fix it in the developing world.

There actually already is a known cure for HIV. Here's a BBC article that talks about the relevant information: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7726118.stm

Basically, a man with cancer received a bone-marrow transplant from a donor that is lacking a key cell receptor HIV uses to take over and turn cells into HIV factories. Roughly 1 in 1,000 people have a genetic mutation that effectively makes the individual immune to HIV/AIDS. When the donor bone-marrow began making new cells, the cells lacked the receptor the HIV virus needed to replicate. With no way to replicate, the virus died off, and is now undetectable in the man's blood.

This post was edited by Userforce on May 23 2013 06:52pm

Well yeah, but that's like saying that a lung transplant is a cure for lung cancer.
Besides, this was a one-off case and it's virtually useless from a practical standpoint because finding a matching bone-marrow donor who also happens to be HIV-immune is pretty much impossible. Even for regular bone-marrow transplants people have to wait months and less than half of the people who need them actually get one. The case was interesting from a scientific point of view, but it certainly won't be helping anyone with HIV in the foreseeable future.

Only way to cure it is to stop it infecting others. If people are honest with each other and eventually everyone will die (of old age of course) with the virus. But unfortunately drug addicts (who use dirty needles and straws) and dishonesty among sexual partners continue its existence.

ignorance plays it role as well.

going and getting a blood test to check for it isn't exactly top of the list of daily chores to do.

Plus it takes a while to actually get the results.