How close is science getting to find a cure for hiv/aids?

Researchers, including a BYU scientist, believe they have found a new compound that could finally kill the HIV/AIDS virus, not just slow it down as current treatments do.
And, unlike the expensive, drug cocktails 25 years of research have produced for those with the deadly virus, the compound invented by Paul D. Savage of Brigham Young University appears to hunt down and kill HIV.
Although so far limited to early test tube studies, CSA-54, one of a family of compounds called Ceragenins (or CSAs), mimics the disease-fighting characteristics of anti-microbial and anti-viral agents produced naturally by a healthy human immune system.

It's impossible to answer the question, other than to say we're closer than we were 20 years ago.

Great Question I think most of us are in the dark about that.I would like to know
I don;t believe it is impossible to answer surely there are some scientists who have a good Idea of what kind of problem they have killing the virus

they must be getting close because buttsex and fellatio isn't killing off the fairies like it was.

The best cure would be preventive medicine and the best preventive medicine would be abstinence.
We may be very far from a cure, I believe.
Also we may be very far away from a solution for everybody.