No one wanted to recognize his research of public utility, and when I wanted to find information on this article a few years later ... disappeared!
A friend, whose brother died of AIDS, dedicated herself to the cause of finding a cure, and volunteered for the Canadian AIDS society. In the course of her activities there, she encountered a very promising course of treatment with medicines formerly used to cure syphilis - in fact some researchers in the society felt that AIDS is simply a mutated form of syphilis. Very suddenly, this potential cure was discarded as worthless, and the idea that the disease may only be a result of syphilis mutating in response to exposure to antibiotics was also ignored.
Shortly after, my friend left the organization, feeling that her brother had died as a result of the society's refusal to recognize promising research.