jason, i believe it's not that it can be cured, just that the medicines they have on the market (which are expensive beyond belief) can contain the disease and lower the antibody's to a point where they are undetectable in a test, making it seem as though it's been cured but in fact it's just contained quite nicely .. albeit, they may have cures but it is true pharmaceutical companie's do make hella bank off aids meds but it's by no means any percentage of there total income that they'd go out of business by selling cures. side not, have you heard of the new "aids like disease" called "Chagas"? it's givin from a parasite left behind from kissing bugs. they suck blood from your face and leave the parasite behind, then when you scratch the site you inadvertantly introduce the parasite into your blood stream. it can be contained (yet again with outrageously expensive medication) for some time but gone untreated eventually it'll make your heart and intestines swell and explode. they say it's mostly in central and latin america but there are in fact 300,000 or so known cases in the US! Crazy huh ? ;p