Why can't they find a cure for HIV/AIDS?

what are the difficulties of finding such a cure, and is there any progress in that direction?

HIV is very difficult to cure because it is a virus that mutates the body, one cell infects another that infects more until the entire body is infected. Because of that, a vaccine would be more probable. The reason a vaccine has not been created is because there are hundreds of strands of the virus, similar to the common cold, and making a vaccine for every different strand would be very difficult. Recently I had the chance to talk to a brilliant doctor at Yale Med who is working on the cure, and he explained that they were close, but not close enough. The advancement we have made on a cure since the 70's have been astounding and I am expecting to see a cure or vaccine in the next 10 years.

Also, Hiv/Aids attacks the bodies immune system, making anyone who has the virus succeptable to almost any bacteria or virus, even the ones in our own mouth. Finding treatment for hiv/aids would also have to have minimal side effects due to the lack of an immune system.

well there used to be no hope at all once upon a time, but now at least there is treatment that prolongs the life span apposed to just a few years.
prevention is the best cure now, but my heart does go out to people with HIV, I have had one friend die from HIV related Pneumonia (male) and one who is HIV positive (female)

The government agencies, the food industry, the drug industry, and many media outlets are trying to suppress truthful information about alternative cures for an economic/ losing profit / reason.
There is a long chain of a middlemen who make a profit before any medication reaches a patient,

One of the major factors is because the health-care industry would lose a mass of money and that's the truth! The health-care companies are for profit and if they have no one to treat money is lost. Sorry to say but that is the problem with the current health-care system. Companies are more concerned with profit then people's lives!

While the treatment drugs have gotten better, there is no cure because the HIV is a virus that is always mutating. It's always changing and that's why they can't make a vaccine or definitive treatment for it.

It is the changing subtypes of HIV itself that resist finding a catch-all vaccine for all HIVs!

cause nobody likes gay people