This is not a profit issue, but a human one. If the drug companies can decrease the price of the remedies, then they can sell more drugs and profits will not decrease much. They disagree, for very silly reasons, saying that if they decrease the price in Thailand, people from other countries will flock to Thailand to buy the medicine. That's not the real reason. The prevailing attitude here is that the disease is something you brought on yourself, and it did not occur naturally.
Some doctors view it as punishment.
As a result many patients are abandoned and others don't care. My priority is also to teach my students about the AIDS problem. This may not influence the AIDS epidemic now, but perhaps in the future it will help. I can inform my students about HIV and not let them walk away from it. I am beginning to record data about the patients in my HIV clinic with the help of four other doctors in my unit, and we will use this to inform other organizations in the world.