Another point: There is no cure for AIDs or even HIV (to keep it from progressing to AIDS)the “quarantine” you are proposing would be in affect locking anyone who tested positive for HIV in prison for life. The assumption that people would have reported for government testing in this situation is beyond ridiculous. (Admittedly not much more ridiculous then the assumption that if the government had wanted it could have simply tracked down anyone who was among OR HAD CONTACT with a G–, an Intravenous drug user, a Haitian, a European who lived in a spillover zone, or any of the people who may have received a blood product for Hemo Carribean since the early 70s.)
If anything the government did caused the disease to spread it was their unwillingness to discuss and educate the public on the dangers of the disease and how to minimize the danger of contracting it, due almost entirely to a misguided “Conservative” idea of morality that prevented them from publicly discussing anything to do with STDs