Why the UN is adopting Canadian scientist’s HIV strategy

The United Nations has formally adopted a UBC professor’s strategy to combat HIV/AIDS worldwide.

“The AIDS epidemic as we know it will be on its knees,” said strategy creator Julio Montaner, director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and UBC medicine professor. “We would turn a raging global pandemic into a sporadic endemic disease. There may be cases emerging here or there but for the most part, the notion of a war against AIDS and the devastation of a whole generation of HIV/AIDS victims would be a thing of the past.”

Montaner’s strategy is called 90-90-90 and involves having 90 per cent of people infected with HIV to be tested, 90 per cent of that group to go on treatment and 90 per cent to continue the therapy to keep viral loads undetectable.

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