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There was a cure for Hepatitis C released last year. It's expensive, but priced below the average cost of a lifetime of treatment, so all the incentives align to get everyone to choose the cure.

This of course brings money and marketshare to the company that owns the cure over the company that owns the treatment patents, and it brings recognition to the scientists involved.

So you can take off that tinfoil hat, if someone would find a cure for HIV, they would absolutely not sit on it.



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