The medical science community has been having a lot of progress in the last few years on finding the elusive cure to HIV. However, latest reports say that these developments have brought more bad than good because specialists notice a steady rise in infection levels.

The said rise, doctors added, can be attributed to the belief among younger patients that the disease can already be cured. Portsmouth-based specialist Dr. Veerakathy Harindra, for example, reports that 25% of his patients wrongly maintain that a cure has already been created to counter the effects of human immunodeficiency virus.

While it is true that there are some medicines out there today that can somewhat keep the virus in check, it is not enough to cure HIV altogether. Charity for HIV sufferers Terrence Higgins Trust mentioned that their statistics indicate that the number of people with the virus this year is already around 70,000 from 30,000 only six years ago.