VANCOUVER – A Vancouver doctor and world-renowned HIV/AIDS researcher
has been selected for induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
Dr. Julio Montaner, director of the BC Centre for Excellence in
HIV/AIDS, is one of six Canadian physicians chosen for the award
honouring contributions that have led to extraordinary improvements in
human health.
A written news release says Montaner’s work includes pioneering the HIV
cocktail, which was adopted by the World Health Organization and the
UNAIDS program in 2000.
Montaner is also a longtime advocate of the AIDS/HIV
treatment-as-prevention model, which he says has led B.C. to see a
consistent decline in both mortality rates and new cases of HIV.
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