The treatment is brutal... it may help HIV but then the patient ends up suffering with a long list of other side effects. It really makes a person question if it's worth it. Similar example is chemotherapy for cancer patients.

We in the adult industry are tested for one type of HIV which is HIV-1. The next well known HIV is HIV-2 although this is extremely rare in our country and any other country other than West Africa like Gambia, Liberia, Ghana and those countries.

Four strains of HIV-2 have been identified which isn't much more closely related to strains found in the wild mangabey monkeys in West Afr. The different clades is what helps distinguish how which strand was transmitted. Its pretty interesting. (this doesn't mean people really fucked monkeys, there are many possibilities. These type of monkeys have been known to enter the community of families and attack brutally which can be transmitted that way as well)

Although the HIV-2 is less pathogenic than HIV-1, its more difficult to isolate HIV-2 from infected people. It's more complex in structure and takes a hell of a lot longer to develop in the body such as 15-20years. So transmitting the virus to someone else during those years its difficult because of very low levels of virus. That explains why its less widespread.

I've read that researchers found that it would take HIV-1 to double widespread in Africa in five years. It would take about 30 years to double infection of HIV-2.