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1% of people have the mutation[1]. 25 million people are registered to donate bone marrow internationally[2].

That statistically represents 250,000 total cures available worldwide for the 36.7 million HIV sufferers[3]. Not taking into account the other ailments bone marrow transfers cure.

[1] http://genetics.thetech.org/original_news/news13

[2] https://bethematch.org/news/news-releases/international-marr...

[3] https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/glob...

1% of Caucasian population

(http://genetics.thetech.org/original_news/news13)

That's actually about 2x the population of the US with HIV. Relatively speaking, it's not that rare comparatively.

If bone marrow donations for all caucasians were mandatory I would agree.

You also need them to be an HLA match as well as being on the bone marrow transplant register.

According to Wikipedia (without a citation)

"CCR5 Δ32 has an (heterozygote) allele frequency of 10% in Europe, and a homozygote frequency of 1%."