BC-CfE Through the Years

Dr. Montaner said he could envision a program in which HIV-positive patients who are also addicts would receive daily anti-retroviral drugs at the same clinic where they received drug-addiction therapy. The HIV-treatment plan would have to be tailor-made for each individual.

AIDS has a new enemy and he’s from B.C. Dr. Julio Montaner, director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in Vancouver, is the new president of the Geneva-based International AIDS Society (IAS).

“In order to be more proactive, we generated data that demonstrates that, when treated, the virus goes down in the blood, but also in the semen and vaginal secretions and so forth,” said Dr. Julio Montaner, the director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, which produced the study.

““We have come a long way in two decades of treating HIV/AIDS,” says Montaner, Director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. “I really believe by expanding HAART (highly active anti-retroviral therapy), a therapy proven to work, we can finally control this epidemic.”what is lacking is the global leadership to do it”

BC-CfE’s proposed expanded access to highly active antiretroviral therapy to curb the growth of the HIV epidemic is endorsed by former Special Envoy to UNAIDS Stephen Lewis, President Bill Clinton and The Economist. Dr. Montaner received an inaugural Avant Garde award ($2.5 million over 5 years) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the

BC-CfE’s research laboratory introduced widespread human pharmacogenetic testing for treatment side effects into routine clinical practice. The interprofessional HIV/AIDS elective offered through the College of Health Disciplines, University of British Columbia celebrates its 10th anniversary, approximately 250 students have completed the course. BC-CfE initiates a large cohort study of HIV-positive injection drug users (IDUs) in

We know what is needed in the war against AIDS/HIV; what is lacking is the global leadership to do it

“Thanks to Dr. Julio Montaner and the CfE team, thousands of HIV/AIDS patients in B.C., and millions around the world, could benefit from new and improved drug therapies”

The authors, led by Professor Julio Montaner, say their model shows that HIV prevalence could be reduced 70-fold, from 7 cases per 1000 people to 0.1 case per 1000 by 2050. READ THE ARTICLE

“The St. Paul’s Hospital doctor whose treatments have lifted many a death sentence says this mission began when he was just a boy”