France has announced the adoption of the Treatment as Prevention® (TasP®) strategy, as pioneered by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE), to combat HIV and AIDS.
France becomes the latest country to adopt TasP®, originally endorsed by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in 2010. Since then, in 2011 China became the first nation to adopt the strategy, and the U.S. identified TasP® as a key strategy to achieve an AIDS-free generation in 2012. More recently, in July 2013, the World Health Organization fully incorporated TasP® in the new Global HIV Treatment Guidelines.