HIV Theories

The hunter theory goes on the principle of the virus spreading from a simian to a human through blood to blood contact. This contact occurs after the hunters have killed the simian and are getting it prepared to be cooked by either cutting themselves while skinning or just from eating the meat.
The transmission of the virus throughout the world is unknown for sure but it could have started with these hunters moving to civilization and having sex.

The conspiracy theory suggests that HIV was a man made virus created to kill blacks and homosexuals. The virus would have spread through the smallpox inoculation program or to gay men through hepatitis B vaccine. I do not believe this is a very good theory mainly because I believe if the government was to create a biological weapon to kill blacks and gays they would make something that would work faster than HIV.

The hunter theory is the most plausible to me. This is because a virus has an incredible ability to evolve in a host. The ability for a virus to change and that fact that primates are so similar to humans makes it an ideal situation to adapt.

Yes I believe it is important to understand how the virus was transmitted to humans because if one can find the source of the problem it can lead to a solution in preventing and curing the problem. If it came from the simians scientists might be able to make some vaccine that comes from simians to cure the virus.