Treatment as Prevention¨

The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS is launching a new initiative that aims to maximize the longevity of people living with HIV. Two decades ago, Dr. Julio Montaner’s biggest concern for people with HIV was keeping them alive. Today, the director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS says he is grateful to […]

Even before doctors determined that the source of her baby girl’s illness was HIV, Denise Wozniak remembered thinking: “The worst thing it could have been was AIDS.” She recalled the U.S. movie Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks, a lawyer who was shunned after he got the disease, was playing at theatres at the time and her

It’s no secret that the last Canadian federal government, Stephen Harper’s Conservative party, did little in the fight again HIV. However, the new Justin Trudeau Liberal government has said they are committed to evidence-based decision making, and Vancouver’s MP, Dr Hedy Fry, is an enthusiastic supporter of Treatment as Prevention (“TasP”), and the wider 90-90-90

Home to the third-largest number of people living with HIV in Asia and the Pacific, Indonesia is a country critical to ending the AIDS epidemic in the region and on this World AIDS Day we are at a defining moment. Only three decades since HIV arrived in this country, we can begin to close the

Ending the disease’s spread by 2030 faces “enormous” challenges. The world committed to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 with goals adopted this year by the United Nations. But is that realistic, or even possible? There are a lot of reasons for optimism on this World AIDS Day. The number of new infections has dropped

FOR healthcare practitioners working in the field of HIV, the past three decades have been a rollercoaster, says Dr. Julio Montaner, Head of UBC’s Division of AIDS and Director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE). Once a death sentence, HIV is now regarded as a chronic, manageable condition. So much so that

There are new effective strategies to reduce the risk of HIV infection. Charlie Sheen’s recent announcement that he has HIV has raised concerns about whether he may have transmitted the infection to other people. While we obviously don’t know his specific medical details (and really, it’s none of our business), HIV treatment is effective at

Coauthored by Venton C. Jones Jr., Program Officer, LGBT Health and Wellness Initiatives at National Black Justice Coalition. Liberation for Black folks must start with a focus on the issues that hinder the most marginalized in our community. Fueled by movements like #BlackLivesMatter, there is a new generation of freedom fighters that are shifting the

In the fight to end the HIV and AIDS epidemic, a small window of opportunity is opening. Efforts have almost reached the half-way point for ending the disease: the number of those in treatment, 1.7 million people, is on track to surpass the number of new annual infections, about 2 million, by next year. The