Treatment as Prevention¨

Leading HIV/AIDS researcher Julio Montaner is among a group of scientists, writers, doctors and researchers receiving a prestigious prize for brilliant work in fields including health sciences, engineering and humanities. The Argentine-Canadian is among five scholars awarded this year’s Killam Prize, which honours Canadian researchers and scientists whose lifetime of work has impacted Canadians and […]

En 35 años, el mŽdico infectólogo se convirtió en el referente sobre sida. Cómo logró vencer a los prejuicios y sacar de la marginalidad una enfermedad de la que poco se sabía El hombre, que había enfermado gravemente en Miami, regresó a Buenos Aires a morir. Era dentista y su caso, raro, había llegado a

Ten years ago, hundreds of organizations and individuals signed a petition calling on all presidential candidates to create a national AIDS strategy. We knew the approach to HIV in the U.S. had to change. If you read about AIDS in the paper, then it was likely about the horrifying scale of the global epidemic; the

News Release From Canadian Institutes of Health Research CIHR announces the winners of its Gold Leaf Prizes for excellence in health research April 24, 2017 – Ottawa, Ontario – Canadian Institutes of Health Research Canada is home to some of the finest minds working in health research today – researchers who are creating new scientific

Julio Montaner habla rápido pero el inglŽs que emplea durante gran parte del año en Canadá, en donde vive y trabaja, apenas asoma en algunas palabras. Luce su moño habitual y el clásico lazo rojo, símbolo del compromiso y trabajo hacia las personas con VIH, sobre la solapa del saco, acaso como una primera contraseña

González Montaner afirma que existen las armas para combatirla pero hay un dŽficit de implementación de los tratamientos. El gran desafío para la sociedad en la lucha contra el SIDA es por un lado frenar la transmisión y por el otro que la gente que tenga VIH lo sepa. Julio Sergio González Montaner descubrió el

On April 6, at the annual Mark Wainberg Lecture, the namesake researcher quipped, as he did every year, that it wouldn’t be a “prememorial” event forever. “At some point,” he quoted friends as saying, “you might not be around any more and then it will really be a memorial lecture.” The audience members gathered at

Since 1991, Dining Out For Life has been raising funds and awareness for HIV/AIDSprevention and treatment. Each year, more than 3,000 restaurants in North America participate by donating a significant portion of their proceeds of the evening’s earnings to a licensed Aids service agency in their city. Last year, more than $4 million was raised,

In clinical trials, the early initiation of HIV treatment (ART) stabilizes the immune system and significantly reduces the risk of developing AIDS-related infections and cancers. This benefit of ART is so profound that researchers increasingly expect that many ART users will live into their senior years. Key to reaping the benefit of ART is achieving