No matter who it is, they don't want to risk getting infected by disposing of the remains, so most funeral parlor personnel are reluctant to accept the remains of AIDS patients.
First of all, because the immune system capacity of AIDS patients is greatly reduced, AIDS patients usually have other infectious diseases in addition to AIDS. That is, there are many other types of viruses present in the patient's body.
Because of how contagious these viruses are and whether they are still alive, such questions are unknown. So in order not to put funeral home employees in such danger, most funeral home personnel are reluctant to accept the remains of AIDS patients.
Secondly, the way to dispose of a body in a funeral home is cremation, and before cremation, the body needs to be rearranged, which involves tools, and an operating room. After the body is processed, all the tools that the AIDS patient touched need to be re-sterilized, and some of the things will be cremated along with the body, which definitely increases the cost.
AIDS UPDATE
On Nov. 6, 2019, a team of researchers led by U.S. researchers obtained the genome sequence of a new strain of HIV, confirming the new strain for the first time 19 years after the publication of naming guidelines related to the AIDS virus. The new strain belongs to HIV-1 group M and is recognized as subtype L, according to the research paper published in the American Journal of AIDS. Most patients worldwide are infected with strains of HIV that belong to HIV-1, with cluster M being the most common.
In January 2022, the organ transplant team of the People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region performed a kidney transplant for a child infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) combined with renal failure. It is said to be the first kidney transplant for an HIV-infected child in the country.
On February 3, 2022, a paper in the journal Science noted that scientists at the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute had discovered a new, highly virulent strain of HIV in the Netherlands.The VB mutant strain was more virulent and infectious.