The failure of HIV AIDS meds was because they refused to name it as a homosexual disease. It remains the same today.
“The failure of HIV AIDS meds ...”
There are many successful antiviral medications that have, for most people, changed an HIV/AIDS diagnosis from a death sentence to a manageable disease like diabetes.
https://www.healthgrades.com/right-care/hiv/10-drugs-commonly-prescribed-for-hiv