Moving forward on Treatment as Prevention

published on April 30, 2013 in Positive Lite

“We have an obligation to decide whether the evidence is enough. We’ve waited too long to do what we know is right. Enough is enough. We need to move to implement.”

Acknowledging that “we have a consensus in this room but not outside this room” BCCFE’s Dr. Julio Montaner, looking dapper in a dark suit and bright red tie, opened the third annual International Treatment as Prevention Workshop in Vancouver last week.

Fitting that we should be there in his home town. Vancouver was the site of the 1996 International AIDS Conference where the advent of protease inhibitors caused such excitement, leading some to rush to predict the end of the epidemic was nigh. It wasn’t of course, but the power of those antiretrovirals launched in 1996 to not only restore health but virtually eliminate infectivity in some circumstances has led us all to the place we are at today. That place is a room of three hundred experts from all corners of the globe. There are almost 40 countries represented here, including many high ranking diplomats, scientists and health officials, not to mention people living with HIV from around the globe. We even have a Prime Minister in our midst.

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St. Paul's Hospital 608–1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 1Y6
Tel: 604-806-8477 | Fax: 604-806-9044
General inquiries: info@bccfe.ca
Media inquiries: communications@bccfe.ca
(Please do not use any of these email addresses to send personal information or book an appointment. To book appointments or contact the H2H clinic, please call 604-416-1517 or fax: 604-564-4893. Do not send your or your client's personal information via email.)

Our work serves clients and communities across British Columbia on lands and waters cared for and nurtured by the many distinct First Nations across the province. The BC-CfE humbly and gratefully acknowledge the stewards of these lands, particularly the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) on whose unceded, traditional and ancestral territories our offices are located.