Treatment as Prevention¨

HIV resistance testing helps improve local and global health outcomes

When a person is able to consistently stay on a course of HIV treatment that works effectively, their quality of life improves and their viral load becomes undetectable, meaning they cannot transmit the HIV virus to others. These concepts form the Treatment as Prevention¨ (TasP¨) strategy, pioneered at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS […]

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Proposed National Resilience Strategy to reverse catastrophic increases in ‘deaths of despair’

Startling increases in nationwide deaths from drug overdoses, alcohol, and suicides constitute a public health crisis – spurring an urgent call for a National Resilience Strategy to stem these “deaths of despair.” The proposal is outlined in a special commentary in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, published in the Lippincott portfolio by

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Hepatitis C treatment as prevention reduces transmission rate by half among HIV-positive men MSM

Transmission rate by half among HIV-positive men MSM New hepatitis C (HCV) transmissions fell by about 50% in HIV-positive men who have sex with men and chronic HCV infections decreased by over 92% after an HCV treatment as prevention intervention was started in a Switzerland, according to a study presented at CROI. Results from the

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Year of the Queer: Coun. Tim Stevenson was political catalyst for B.C.’s globally admired life-saving HIV treatment

It’s a story that’s not well known to many residents of the city Vancouver city councillor Tim Stevenson will be in the spotlight on Wednesday (May 23) when the City of Vancouver raises flags at Vancouver City Hall to designate this as the Year of the Queer. … At the 25th-anniversary dinner for Positive Living

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Ending HIV Transmissions by 2020

A look at the current state of HIV health care. Historically, infection by HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) was considered to be a death sentence. However, significant medical advances have allowed HIV positive people to lead healthy lives with treatment. AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is no longer the norm in Australia. The NSW HIV Strategy 2016-2020

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Hepatitis C virus elimination programs report encouraging results: Is elimination within reach?

13 April 2018, Paris, France: Two nationwide programmes in Georgia and Iceland, which were designed to eliminate hepatitis C virus (HCV) at the population level, have reported encouraging results, suggesting that these countries could be on target to achieve their elimination goals. Although both programmes have adopted slightly different approaches, both have reported high levels

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