Will there ever be an AIDS vaccine? Or are we chasing a ghost?

It is now years later! About 33 million people in the world are infected with HIV and some 26 million have died of AIDS since the pandemic began. Is there ever going to be an AIDS vaccine? Or is HAART a better solution? With HAART, you can recover from HIV/AIDS and live with HIV for a very long time. Putting funding and belief toward HAART may be saving lives rather than the waiting and false hope of a vaccine. A substantial minority of scientists admit that an HIV vaccine may never be developed. Some say it will take another 20 years of research before one is discovered. Others believe that a vaccine against HIV is further away than ever and admit that effective immunization against the virus may never be possible. A mood of deep pessimism has spread among the international community of AIDS scientists after the failure of a trial of a promising vaccine at the end of last year. It just was the latest in a series of setbacks in the 25-year struggle to develop an HIV vaccine. However, we do know HAART is an effective way to control the HIV spread and allow people infected to live longer and healthier. Should all efforts be put into prevention? What are you thoughts?