Perhaps, but I can certainly imagine a day where someone voluntarily creates a plan to create a new product that is extraordinarily valuable to a lot of deep-po

Perhaps, but I can certainly imagine a day where someone voluntarily creates a plan to create a new product that is extraordinarily valuable to a lot of deep-pocketed customers, that competitors cannot match for years potentially, and even reduces customers for the current product on the market that their competitors can match (cocktail). Not to mention that 1) new vaccines will need to be created to match virus mutation, and 2) thousands of new customers will enter the market daily by sheer virtue of population expansion, especially in areas hit hard by HIV [1]. I'm sorry but there isn't a global conspiracy to stop development of an HIV vaccine. Much of what big pharma does is incredibly cyncial and deserves scrutiny, but even viewing it within that lens, there is a clear business case here. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...