Treatment as Prevention¨

British Columbia’s record of combating AIDS has been recognized internationally, and its policies are being adopted by countries around the world, but not by the Canadian government. Ottawa should create and implement national strategies on HIV/AIDS, using B.C.’s policies as a template. The fight against the virus is spearheaded by the B.C. Centre for Excellence […]

At the end of 2014, three million more people were living with HIV/AIDS than had died from the disease since 1984, when it was first diagnosed. The eye-popping juxtaposition speaks to the scale of the epidemic and medical advances made against what had been an automatic death sentence. As 6,000 experts in the fight against

Some of the world’s pre-eminent medical professionals, public health experts and scientists have been meeting in Vancouver this week at the 2015 International AIDS Society’s biennial conference. More than 6,000 delegates have been discussing the latest scientific developments in HIV science and how to put them into practice to combat the disease. In the medical

Research facility will expand into large space on Vancouver’s Powell Street VANCOUVER — The B.C. government said it will put $2 million toward the Hope to Health Research Centre as a three-day international conference on the latest in HIV-related research opened Sunday in Vancouver. The fresh investment will allow the new HIV/AIDS, addiction and viral

VANCOUVER – The B.C. government said it will put $2 million toward the Hope to Health Research Centre as a three-day international conference on the latest in HIV-related research opened Sunday in Vancouver. The fresh investment will allow the new HIV/AIDS, addiction and viral hepatitis research facility – which opened in the Downtown Eastside at

VANCOUVER – The Government of B.C. is providing St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation with $2 million to help the Hope to Health Research Clinic expand. Health Minister Terry Lake made the announcement in Vancouver last night at the eighth International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2015), the world’s largest open scientific

Las personas infectadas por VIH tienen un riesgo menor de desarrollar sida u otras enfermedades graves si empiezan el tratamiento antirretroviral lo antes posible, cuando sus niveles de cŽlulas T CD4 -una medida clave de la salud del sistema inmunológico- son más altos, en lugar de esperar a que estos disminuyan. Esa es la conclusión

FROM IAS 2015 BOB LEAHY SPEAKS (AGAIN) WITH BC’S DR. JULIO MONTANER, THE WORLD’S LEADING TREATMENT AS PREVENTION ADVOCATE, ABOUT 90-90-90, HIS FRUSTRATIONS WITH UPTAKE IN CANADA – AND MEETING THE POPE. He’s co-chair of IAS 2015, a conference of its time notable not so much for its presentation of the latest science but for

La confŽrence mondiale sur le VIH à Vancouver s’achve aujourd’hui. Les experts rŽunis au Canada sont optimistes. Les scientifiques ont dŽsormais les clŽs pour vaincre le Sida. Cet objectif pourrait se concrŽtiser d’ici à 2030 selon l’Onu. L’espoir face au Sida a le visage d’une jeune française de 18 ans. InfectŽe par le virus du

La lucha contra el sida dio un vuelco a partir del año 1996. El congreso que se celebró entonces en Vancouver sentó las bases de la terapia antirretroviral que, a la postre, lo convertiría en una enfermedad crónica, pero no mortal. En la misma ciudad, 19 años despuŽs, la conferencia de la Sociedad Internacional de