Treatment as Prevention¨

As the globe marks World AIDS Day on Monday, we turn our attention to HIV/AIDS here at home with nine surprising facts about HIV in Canada. 1. A person is infected with HIV in Canada every three hours. In Saskatchewan, where the prevalence rate is three times the national average, a person is infected even […]

The province of B.C. recognized and thanked Dr. Julio Montaner this week for his decades-long work and research in HIV/AIDS care, treatment and prevention, which has led to B.C. becoming a world leader in pioneering treatment for HIV patients. The announcement from Health Minister Terry Lake comes just days before World AIDS Day, internationally celebrated

Man who put province on the map as a leader in AIDS research officially recognized on eve of World AIDS Day “Nobody in Canada has made a bigger contribution to the field of HIV/AIDS research and treatment than Dr. Julio Montaner,” said Health Minister Terry Lake Wednesday as the B.C. government held a special ceremony

The United States Government has launched a US$25million project towards HIV/AIDS prevention in Zambia. The project aims at maintaining the existing HIV/AIDS services and scale-up of treatment as prevention, strengthening the health system and supporting Government priorities. Speaking during the launch of the Zambia Prevention, Care and Treatment Partnership (ZPCT II) project at Government Complex,

They make several furtive passes of the front door of Pela Vidda before they duck inside and mumble a request at the front desk. They are whisked upstairs, where a calm counsellor speaks to them for a few minutes, then swabs the inside of their mouths and whips out a little plastic tray. A few

Stephen Lewis sounded exhausted as he spoke on the phone from Montreal. “I don’t know,” he said. The former UN secretary general’s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa repeated the phrase several times. “It feels as if the whole world is in a tailspin of lunacy.” The question was about the international community waiting until

In yet another landmark announcement made during the AIDS 2014 conference, the Queensland Government has revealed they are joining forces with leading international experts from Canada to build their efforts to end HIV. The Australian first will see a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Queensland Health Department, HIV Foundation Queensland (HIVFQ) and the British

MARK COLVIN: Queensland is the first state in Australia to sign up to a new HIV treatment program which promises to eliminate HIV and AIDS in our lifetime.Researchers in British Columbia in Canada developed the program in the late 1990s.Known as the Treatment as Prevention Strategy, it’s dramatically decreased AIDS cases.The announcement was made at