New partnership to accelerate HIV treatment scale up

UNAIDS and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS formalized their partnership to support efforts to bring HIV treatment to all eligible people.

At the UNAIDS Headquarters in Geneva, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel SidibÂŽ and the head of the BC Centre Dr Julio Montaner, signed on 5 February a Memorandum of Understanding.

In 2013, UNAIDS launched the Treatment 2015 framework, which calls for intensified action and innovation to expedite treatment scale-up. To further the partnership the BC Centre has made a grant of CAD 270 000 to UNAIDS to support scientific modelling and advocacy activities to highlight the need for immediate investments in life-saving HIV treatment programmes.

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During the Canada Post strike announced September 25, 2025, the following measures will be undertaken to minimize service disruption to BC-CfE clients and providers.

  • The BC-CfE Laboratory has transitioned to private courier for delivery of outgoing reports and documents. Results required urgently can be faxed upon request. (Lab Contact Information: Phone 604-806-8775; FAX 604-806-9463)
  • The BC-CfE Drug Treatment Program (DTP) will fax outgoing forms and documents to the provider’s office. (DTP Contact Information: Phone 604-806-8515; FAX 604-806-9044)
  • St. Paul’s Hospital Ambulatory Pharmacy has transitioned to private courier for delivery of medications. We recommend requesting medication at least 2 weeks in advance in case of delivery delays, particularly to rural/remote parts of BC. (Contact Information: Phone 1-800-547-3622; FAX 604-806-8675)

During the Canada Post strike, we recommend that documents be faxed or couriered to our sites, versus utilization of regular mail service

The BC-CfE Laboratory is streamlining reporting processes for certain tests in order to simplify distribution and record-keeping, and to ensure completeness of results. Beginning September 2, 2025, results for the ‘Resistance Analysis of HIV-1 Protease and Reverse Transcriptase’ (Protease-RT) and ‘HIV-1 Integrase Resistance Genotype’ tests will be combined into a single ‘HIV-1 Resistance Genotype Report’.
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