Originally Posted by bonehead

There is a huge difference between being cured and being a carrier. As long as you have the disease you are capable of spreading it. Secondly, those cocktails have to be kept up with. They are expensive and due to the evolving nature of HIV the cocktails must be updated. One false move and you are back to square one. Furthermore, we do not have any long term studies as to the side effects of these cocktails. Are we really "curing" AIDS, or are we killing Peter to save Paul. We know what spreads the disease so our efforts are better spent on prevention rather than the wink and a prayer of medicine.