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After billions spent on HIV research, it became more profitable to sell meds for the infected than it would be to sell a vaccine to everyone, so we'll only see a vaccine when this scenario invert. CMV.

In short, I believe that only when the number of HIV infected people drop below profitable scale, we'll see a vaccine, mostly because for now, companies have to get the research invested money back by selling other drugs to control the symptoms.

When this number shift, it will become more profitable to sell the vaccine to the world.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, more than 60 million people have contracted HIV and nearly 30 million have died of HIV-related causes. Today, more than 34 million people now live with HIV/AIDS.

If the infected people number drop below 15~10 million, it may be more profitable to just sell a vaccine. Let's say this would take place from 10 to 20 years from now.

Many can say: "Hey, there's thousands of good scientists working on a vaccine right now", but then I'll say: "Yes, but how the big pharma is going to get it's research money back if a vaccine becomes available before their research ROI?".

In the end, money has a voice on this matter, and I wanna talk about how important it really is, when we're talking about it instead of the product of it (the vaccine).

And I wanna stress that I'm not a conspiratard or anything like it, but money is VERY important and I just wanna talk about this vaccine from this perspective.

Change my view.
gpt
Unless a mutual conspiracy was agreed upon by the big pharma companies, capitalism would solve the problem. Say we have three companies: X Y Z. They all sell HIV medication. X actually finds a vaccine for HIV.  It only costs $400, much less than HIV medication, and the current situation is much more profitable. But he knows that eventually patterns will wear off and Y and Z will get the vaccine too. But X could have a monopoly for while and sell all of the $400 vaccines.