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HIV is still here, and Canada needs a united response

Sunday December 1st marks World AIDS Day, a solemn day to remember the millions of lives lost to HIV/AIDS, reflect on the progress we’ve made and focus on the work still to be done. This day is particularly poignant here in BC, the epicentre of Canada’s epidemic in the 1980s. Within a decade and a half, however, the 1996 International AIDS Conference offered the first glimmer of hope with the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy, which for the first time allowed us to stop disease progression to AIDS and premature AIDS-related mortality. Shortly thereafter, we demonstrated that people living with HIV (PLWH) who were on effective therapy were no longer infectious, so we proposed to expand treatment coverage to all PLWH with the aim of stopping the epidemic.

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Dr. Julio Montaner receives King Charles III Coronation Medal

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August 31st is International Overdose Awareness Day, an annual campaign to end overdoses, remember without stigma those who have died from overdose, and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind. The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) joins families, friends and communities in mourning the needless losses of life through overdose and continue to advocate for an end to the toxic drug crisis through a safer supply of drugs.

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BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS study reveals Treatment as Prevention combined with targeted Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis can stop HIV/AIDS

By Fernando

New research, published in Lancet HIV, shows that providing antiretroviral treatment to all people living with HIV and preventive treatment to individuals at high-risk of contracting HIV reduces deaths and new HIV infections by more than 90% Vancouver, BC: The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) has released a new research study showing that

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AIDS Vancouver launches campaign to have injectable HIV treatment covered in B.C.

By Fernando

Although it was approved for use in Canada in March 2020, an injectable HIV treatment is still not covered under B.C.’s public health care system. AIDS Vancouver is calling on the government to change that. “It’s stressful,” said Vancouver resident George Astakeesic. Living with HIV has been a long journey for Astakeesic, who navigates a

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Canadian Contributions to Medicine

By Fernando

… 4. HAART In the early 1980s, cases of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) were rising and, by the 1990s, millions of people were infected and dying. Dr. Julio Montaner, originally from Argentina, became a post-doctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia in 1981. Six years later, Dr. Montaner became the university’s director of

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Conversations That Matter: HIV/AIDS is still a pandemic

By Fernando

Dr. Julio Montaner discusses HIV/AIDS, where we are at in treatment, where we need to go and what roadblocks still need to be removed In 1996, Dr. Julio Montaner hosted the Vancouver International AIDS Conference and shared the HAART antiretroviral treatment he and a team of committed scientists was pioneering in Vancouver. Since then, he

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Minister’s statement on World AIDS Day, Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week

By Fernando

Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, has issued the following statement in recognition of World AIDS Day and Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week: “Dec. 1 marks World AIDS Day and the beginning of Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week. It is time to renew our collective and personal commitment to supporting British Columbians living with HIV/AIDS and ensuring that

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Sabemos cómo derrotar a la epidemia de VIH/SIDA. ¡Es hora de que así lo hagamos!

By Fernando

El 1o de diciembre, el “Día Mundial del SIDA”, mientras reflexionamos sobre el grave impacto del VIH/SIDA en los últimos 40 años, nos encontramos frente a un precipicio donde todos los avances que hemos logrado están en peligro. La marea comenzó a cambiar en contra de la epidemia de VIH/SIDA cuando anunciamos el cóctel de

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On World AIDS Day, Canada must lead the way in combating HIV-AIDS

By Fernando

Dec. 1 marks World AIDS Day. As researchers focused on fighting the HIV-AIDS epidemic, we are increasingly concerned all the progress made in the fight against the virus is at risk. In 1996, the first remarkable breakthrough against the HIV-AIDS epidemic came with the novel combination of drugs that became known as Highly Active Antiretroviral

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DocTalks vodcast for World AIDS Day: How doctors can promote equality around testing, prevention, and treatment

By Fernando

December 1 is World AIDS Day and the start of Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week in Canada. For our latest vodcast episode, President of Doctors of BC, Dr Ramneek Dosanjh, speaks with three guests in the area of HIV/AIDS including: They discuss what doctors should know about HIV/AIDS and how they can promote equality around testing,

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