[AdamSelene235]

However, after all these years in which researchers have been pretty routinely producing AIDS in lab monkeys by infecting them with the HIV virus,

I think you mean the SIV virus not the HIV virus which is harmless to monkeys.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Yes, I expect so (though I'm not sure there's really any more biological distinction between SIV and HIV, than there is between different strains of HIV).