Treatment as Prevention¨

We have the pills, the prevention plan and the strategy to prevent infections – so what’s stopping us? I was on PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), the daily anti-HIV pill, for about a year and a half before I had to stop because I lost my private health insurance. My lack of access made me feel much […]

Vancouver is privileged to house some of the world’s brightest minds, and it’s enlightening to see these leaders not only continually excel in their careers, but also elevate Canada’s stature in the global knowledge economy. Dr. Julio Montaner is a Professor in the Department of Medicine and Head of the UBC Division of AIDS, as

Researchers set out to evaluate whether changes in the use of condoms reflected increased adoption of serosorting (having sex only with those of similar HIV status) or biomedical preventions like antiretroviral treatment. Their report, published in May in the journal AIDS, concluded that condomless sex continues to increase among men who have sex with men,

What is an Undetectable Viral Load? HIV treatment can reduce a person’s viral load – the amount of virus in blood and other bodily fluids – until it is ‘undetectable’, unable to be measured by current standard lab tests. Having an undetectable viral load is not a cure for HIV. There is still HIV present

Let me start by posing these questions: how many young women are having sex in your community? How many of those are having it safely? And how many of those are having it consensually? All these questions are coming alive as I type this as I anticipate that the answers could be provided by the

GLASGOW, United Kingdom – Although several countries are close to meeting the UNAIDS HIV targets for 2020, global progress is just past the halfway point, according to Julio Montaner, MD, director of the BC Center for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. “This is really very problematic; 2020 is around the corner, and

GLASGOW, United Kingdom – The possibility of controlling HIV without eradicating the virus is a hot new area of research, Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said here during the opening session of HIV Drug Therapy 2016. In fact, he presented results from a study of an antibody

Recently, what’s perceived as an HIV filter option on Grindr has caused controversy and discussion among gay men. This development has left people understandably distressed as they worry that it allows the filtering out of HIV-positive guys. But I think we are missing the bigger issue. It’s not just about the existence of the filter

A Professor of Medicine and Head of the Division of AIDS at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Dr. Julio Montaner is a globally renowned researcher best known for his pioneering work on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). After determining cART’s efficacy for patients already living with HIV/AIDS, Dr. Montaner went on to show how cART