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 […]
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
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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