Do we have the vision to deliver on our pledges? Over the last decade, compelling evidence has accumulated to show that an AIDS-free generation is within reach. Regrettably, we have failed to exert the necessary political leadership to implement the strategy. However, there are signs that the tide may be turning. With support from the […]
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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama set an ambitious goal Thursday for significantly increasing access to life-saving AIDS drugs for people in the U.S. and around the world, as he announced a renewed American commitment to ending a pandemic that has killed 30 million people. “We can beat this disease,” Obama declared during a World
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In the country with the world’s highest HIV rate, clinics have been running out of medicine. They break open the bottles of pills, divide them in half, and dole them out in small plastic bags to patients who worry that their lifeline is eroding. “They say they don’t know how they’ll survive,” says a young
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(CNN) — It should be time to celebrate key milestones in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Recently, the United Nations announced that new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths fell to their lowest levels since the epidemic’s peak. Today, 6.6 million people in low- and middle-income countries are on life-saving antiretroviral therapy, and people with
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced today that “Treatment as Prevention” is integral to the global fight against HIV/AIDS. “Let’s end the old debate over treatment versus prevention and embrace treatment as prevention,” she said this morning in Washington, D.C. Clinton emphasized that effective drug treatment is key to preventing further transmission of HIV
The clock is ticking. Dr. Julio Montaner, the world-renowned HIV researcher of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, has made an urgent plea to the medical community to recognize that treating patients with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) doubles as an effective tool against the spread of the incurable virus. Montaner and his team
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Seek and Treat for Optimal Prevention of HIV/AIDS (STOP HIV/AIDS) will will expand access to HIV/AIDS medications among hard-to-reach and vulnerable populations in Vancouver’s inner city and Prince George. For more information on STOP HIV/AIDS, including updates on progress, please refer to our quarterly bulletin. The third edition is now available for download in PDF
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Extender las pruebas de diagnóstico precoz del VIH y ofrecer fármacos antirretrovirales a todos los seropositivos es la manera más eficaz de contener la epidemia del sida, y a medio plazo tambin la más barata, según ha demostrado Julio Montaner, ex presidente de la Sociedad Internacional del Sida, en una serie de estudios que ha
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New cases of HIV among those who use drugs by injection continue to decline in B.C., according to a report by the provincial health officer. A major factor in the decline has been the expansion of Highly Active Anti-retroviral Therapy (HAART) and harm reduction programs, says the report. Introduced in 1997, HAART is a combination
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Canada Post has provided notification of restarting their operations on December 17, 2024. As Canada Post ramps up and stabilizes their services, the BC-CfE will continue the following measures on an interim basis to minimize service disruption to BC-CfE clients and providers.
