It is pretty bad, there's only a theoretical cream that may be in use some day, many years from now and it may reduce infection rates. If you take the article

It is pretty bad, there's only a theoretical cream that may be in use some day, many years from now and it may reduce infection rates. If you take the article at face value, we just cured HIV. And IMHO articles like that are VERY bad because over the years they have built a consensus of science is wrong and confusing and disappointing into the general public. Anything that's repeatedly over hyped will end up like that.