December 1st marks World AIDS Day and the start of Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week. Today, the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) is proud to announce the virtual end of the domestic epidemic of HIV in British Columbia.
Formerly the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Canada, British Columbia is now recording historically low levels of HIV infections the province. The BC-CfE’s progress can be attributed to the made-in-BC Treatment as Prevention® (TasP® ) strategy, and the availability of government-funded HIV medication Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) since 2018.