Not to sound like a nutcase, but I bet there already is one. Problem is, there's not enough money to be made from a cure or a vaccine, long-term treatment is where the $$ is.

My magic 8 ball, says not likely.

I doubt it. I have yet to see a cure for anything. Doctors are very good about handing out treatment but never a cure.

My natural pessimism says no since there will be new strains that have mutated and become immune to current treatment methods.

It is possible, but remember HIV is a strong virus and if it attacks the immune system if you get a curable vaccine for it... well then the immune system wont be around to get the vaccine and will die...so it could take maybe longer than that.

There are already natural cures that are hidden by the media.

If they find a cure for cancer, then all those research scientists will be without a job. I think it would be the same for HIV.

I thnk there already is one but the governments of the world will not hand it over because aids is a biological weapon

Not until they can figure out a way to make a cure that requires regular treatments over the rest of your life. So long as medicine = money, be vewwy vewwy cayfull

Next decade!? Not likely at all, given the complexity of the mechanism of HIV and other retroviruses. Their mechanisms of entry and ability to establish a chronic infection are top-notch. Sad, really, when you realise atmospheric oxygen levels will kill/inactivate them. Vaccine development is a very, very difficult process to begin with. Combine that with a virus that is capable of expressing a variable virulence factor and is capable of an immensely high mutation/evolution rate, and you quickly see why an HIV cure/vaccine is one of medicine's holy grails, right up there with cancer and Trypanosoma (sleeping sickness, chagas disease) or Plasmodium (malaria). HIV-related AIDS is a pandemic... sad to say if it is "cured" I fear gravely for the earth. We humans have a tendency of ignorance regarding our own population control. I would like to see some progress regarding it though; where it causes AIDS, it is a terrible syndrome to have. Though... there are much, much worse.

Keeps the population down.

hopefully , I think they need to find the cure for cancer in the next decade too

prolly not, if doctors dont have a cure for cancer yet, they won't for HIV/AIDS

Here's the deal. I doubt they will ever find a cure for anything, because there is no money in cures. I do not believe anyone is even looking for cures to anything. Billions of dollars a year is put into researching cures and never do they find one. They only find new and more expensive ways to treat illnesses.

I am completely not educated in this so if this is wrong I am sorry. However, I recently had a conversation with a scientist and we had a casual conversation about this. He told me there is a cure for cancer. However, if you want to cure the cancer in your body your intestines will probably fall out of your body from the side effects of the drugs. The problem is that they can cure all these diseases but you won't be able to survive the cure, so that is the problem they are facing. How do we kill the virus and not kill the host. I also know that a virus is nearly impossible to cure and never has been because once you get a virus it never leaves your body, you only can make it show no symptoms. Therefore, I do not think we will ever be able to cure anyone with HIV but I do think in the next decade we will have a vaccine. I've heard of the possibility of one in testing so I think it will be soon. I don't know if I would want to take it, especially with the rush to distribute the Gardasil shot to prevent HPV without extensive testing and many young girls got sick off that. Again...I am horrible with science I just felt like contributing so sorry if any of this seems completely false.

Possibly. Nobody can really predict the future.