Treatment as Prevention¨

Canadians living with HIV/AIDS should no longer face a possible prison sentence for failing to disclosure their HIV status to sexual partners, says an acclaimed Canadian doctor who helped revolutionize the treatment of HIV worldwide. Today’s triple drug cocktails known as HAART, or highly active antiretroviral therapy, can reduce the viral load of people living […]

The treatment of HIV has come a long way, thanks to antiretroviral (ARV) drugs that can lower levels of the virus in the body, keeping people healthy and reducing the risk of HIV transmission. Increasingly, though, studies have also shown that the same drugs used to treat existing infections can also help protect HIV-free people

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

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

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

(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

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