HIV Monitoring Quarterly Reports, First Quarter 2015
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Treatment as Prevention¨
Repurposing of the HIV/AIDS Inpatient Ward – Vancouver Leads the Way
One year ago today, B.C. Premier Christy Clark, B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake, BC-CfE Director Julio Montaner, and UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé marked a milestone in British Columbia’s fight against HIV and AIDS: the repurposing of a St. Paul’s Hospital 10C Ward that had served those dying from AIDS, starting in 1997 at the peak of the epidemic in Vancouver.
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Transmission Control
Testing HIV positive is no longer a death sentence-a fact that stands as one of the great medical achievements of the twentieth century. The United Nations aims to diagnose 90 percent of all HIV infections worldwide by 2020, deliver antiretroviral therapy to 90 percent of those who test positive, and suppress the virus in 90
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Inter-connecting health problems increase HIV risk for MSM
Intertwining health problems – syndemics – are associated with higher viral load and poorer adherence in HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) taking antiretroviral treatment (ART), investigators from the United States report in the online edition of AIDS. “Higher HIV viral load and lower ART adherence are, respectively, associated with increased syndemics count,”
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Treatment as Prevention: Building on the HIV experience to promote healthcare sustainability
CDRD Seminar featuring Dr. Julio S G Montaner, OC, OBC, MD, DSc (Hon), FRCPC, FCCP, FACP, FRSC, Director, BC-Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St Paul’s Hospital, Providence Health Care, Professor and Head of Division of AIDS, University of British Columbia, UBC and St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation Chair in AIDS Research, UNAIDS Special Advisor, HIV Therapeutics.
HIV-Positive Youth: Linking Them to Early Treatment Essential for Long-Term Health
This week marks Youth Week in British Columbia. Globally, there have never been more young people than there are today: as of 2009, there are an estimated 1.8 billion people ages 10 to 24. These are the leaders of tomorrow, and will be the ones to determine the health and wellbeing of the next generation.
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Longtime AIDS researcher meets Pope Francis
An AIDS research pioneer had the opportunity of a lifetime in March. He encountered a fellow Argentinian scientist: a chemist who wears a white zucchetto. Doctor Julio Montaner, the director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, briefly met Pope Francis at a Wednesday audience in March. The Catholic doctor detailed groundbreaking prevention treatments
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Achieving an end to the AIDS epidemic:Laying the groundwork
Community campaigns, including those that provide screening or prevention services for multiple diseases, have proven effective in Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia. Further efforts are required to normalize HIV testing in health care settings. Recent efforts by Nigeria to provide HIV testing as the entry point for
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In Canada, We Have the Strategy and the Tools to End AIDS
World Health Day marks a time to reflect on the many public health challenges to be addressed around the globe, such as the 35 million people living with HIV and AIDS. It’s also a call to address such issues closer to home. In Canada, we can lead the way forward towards ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic,
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In Canada, We Have the Strategy and the Tools to End AIDS
World Health Day marks a time to reflect on the many public health challenges to be addressed around the globe, such as the 35 million people living with HIV and AIDS. It’s also a call to address such issues closer to home. In Canada, we can lead the way forward towards ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but a federal level commitment is sorely lacking.
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