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World leaders identify key targets in battle against HIV/AIDS Declaration calls on UN member states to achieve universal access by 2015 World leaders at the recent United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS agreed to a political declaration that identifies key targets and timelines to reduce the number of HIV infections and turn […]
International workshop highlights made-in-B.C. prevention strategy World’s top researchers review evidence for Treatment as Prevention More than 150 of the globe’s leading experts in HIV/AIDS research gathered in Vancouver this month for the first International Workshop on Treatment as Prevention. The event, hosted by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) represented a unique […]
UN recommends made-in-BC strategy to reshape global AIDS response Secretary-General’s report calls for linkage of treatment and prevention Treatment as Prevention, the groundbreaking HIV treatment paradigm pioneered at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE), has been endorsed by a recently released United Nations report. The report identifies Treatment as Prevention as a key […]
China chooses made-in-BC approach to combat HIV and AIDS worldwide World’s most populous nation embraces treatment as prevention The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) hosted a Chinese delegation led by Dr. Zunyou Wu last year to share their expertise on the internationally recognized treatment as prevention strategy and collaborate on the development of […]
Gordon Campbell honoured for commitment to HIV and AIDS research Premier’s personal and financial support leads to key advances Speaking to an appreciative audience at the Fall 2010 HIV/Antiretroviral (ARV) Update, hosted by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE), Premier Gordon Campbell lauded the benefits of expanding HIV treatment and thanked hundreds of […]
Dr. Julio Montaner honoured for leadership and success fighting HIV/AIDS Over the past month, Dr. Julio Montaner, director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE), has earned three prestigious awards and been feted by his health-care colleagues in B.C. for his decades of successful work fighting HIV and AIDS. The recognitions he has […]
UNAIDS Treatment 2.0 based on made-in-B.C. “treatment as prevention” strategy A radical new approach to HIV treatment, dubbed “Treatment 2.0,” aims to dramatically increase testing andtreatment for HIV using the best available diagnostic tools and drugs, announced Michel Sidibé, executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), at the XVIII International AIDS […]
NIDA director a strong supporter of the BC-CfE’s Seek and Treat strategy to fight HIV At a special ceremony on May 31, 2010, Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health, was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Science by the University of British […]
AIDS 2010’s Rights Here, Right Now theme emphasizes HIV treatment as a basic human right During a recent visit to the UNAIDS Secretariat in Geneva, Dr. Julio Montaner, Director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and President of the International AIDS Society (IAS), gave an impassioned overview of key issues on the […]
UNAIDS chief demands Harper put universal access on G8 agenda during UBC forum UNAIDS chief Michel Sidibé told a blue-ribbon panel of world health leaders brought together by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) that Prime Minister Stephen Harper must put universal access to HIV therapies back on the Group of Eight (G8) […]
B.C. government funds $48-million Seek and Treat program The Government of B.C. and the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) made history at St. Paul’s Hospital on the morning of February 4, 2010. In the hospital’s expansive New Lecture Theatre, B.C. Health Services Minister, Kevin Falcon, stepped up to the podium in front of […]
A decade of progress against HIV, but gains at risk Dr. Julio Montaner, director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and president of the International AIDS Society (IAS), has travelled in recent months to Moscow, Japan, Germany and Washington, D.C. Everywhere, he had a simple message for government officials: HIV/AIDS can be […]