Mrrzy's talking about anti-retroviral therapy, combinations of drugs which can and do lead to greater life expectancy.However, and it's a big however, the drugs can cause seriously debilitating side effects all by themselves and people with HIV are still prone to opportunistic secondary infections. How much longer they live, well, we don't know as yet, it's still early days. IT's also worth remembering that HIV has developed into several strains now, making it much harder to treat. With respect to a 'vacine', well, I'm with Kat on this one. I see the drug companies making money hand over fist on this horrible illness and they don't have any incentive to find a vaccine or a cure.