Treatment as Prevention¨

Treatment as Prevention named in Time Magazine’s “Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2011”

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 […]

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorses the made-in-BC Strategy of Treatment as Prevention

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

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A global plea for treatment

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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Extender la detección precoz y la terapia reduce los contagios de VIH

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 tambiŽn 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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During the Canada Post strike announced September 25, 2025, the following measures will be undertaken to minimize service disruption to BC-CfE clients and providers.

  • The BC-CfE Laboratory has transitioned to private courier for delivery of outgoing reports and documents. Results required urgently can be faxed upon request. (Lab Contact Information: Phone 604-806-8775; FAX 604-806-9463)
  • The BC-CfE Drug Treatment Program (DTP) will fax outgoing forms and documents to the provider’s office. (DTP Contact Information: Phone 604-806-8515; FAX 604-806-9044)
  • St. Paul’s Hospital Ambulatory Pharmacy has transitioned to private courier for delivery of medications. We recommend requesting medication at least 2 weeks in advance in case of delivery delays, particularly to rural/remote parts of BC. (Contact Information: Phone 1-800-547-3622; FAX 604-806-8675)

During the Canada Post strike, we recommend that documents be faxed or couriered to our sites, versus utilization of regular mail service

The BC-CfE Laboratory is streamlining reporting processes for certain tests in order to simplify distribution and record-keeping, and to ensure completeness of results. Beginning September 2, 2025, results for the ‘Resistance Analysis of HIV-1 Protease and Reverse Transcriptase’ (Protease-RT) and ‘HIV-1 Integrase Resistance Genotype’ tests will be combined into a single ‘HIV-1 Resistance Genotype Report’.
For more details and example reports, please click on the button below