Treatment as Prevention¨

The director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS finds the Conservative government’s lack of support for a national strategy this election disturbing. Since publishing an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper Sept. 22, asking for them to endorse the United Nations HIV/AIDS strategy, Dr. Julio Montaner has renewed his call. Montaner has […]

VANCOUVER, Oct. 9, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In response to a letter from the Director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) Dr. Julio Montaner, all federal political parties – except the Conservative government – pledged their support of a global target to end AIDS by 2030. On September 22, Dr. Julio Montaner

A Vancouver-based HIV/AIDS pioneer could soon see Canada back his internationally recognized HIV treatment – but only with the ouster of the Conservative government, which for nearly a decade has rebuffed his calls. Last week, Julio Montaner, director of B.C.’s Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, wrote a letter to the leaders of Canada’s federal parties

A large proportion of HIV transmissions occur during recent infection or antiretroviral treatment interruptions, Swiss investigators report in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Overall, 44% of transmissions were associated with recent infection and 14% could be attributed to treatment interruptions. The authors believe these findings represent a major challenge for treatment as prevention (TasP) strategies. “Our findings

A made-in-Canada approach to tackling the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been endorsed by the United Nations for use around the world but has yet to gain the support of the Canadian government. It’s been a vindicating and frustrating week for Julio Montaner, director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. Montaner’s a pioneer of the

DeKALB – Renowned researcher Max Essex is looking to the end of HIV/AIDS through treatment as prevention strategies. The auditorium of Northern Illinois University’s Altgeld Hall was full Thursday with people who gathered to hear Essex speak on his work during the 12th annual W. Bruce Lincoln Lecture. Lincoln was a DeKalb-based historian and author

AIDSMAP REPORTS ON RESEARCH THAT SAYS AWARENESS OF TREATMENT’S IMPACT ON TRANSMISSION IS TRANSFORMING THE LIVES OF COUPLES OF MIXED HIV STATUS Treatment as prevention counters stigma and enhances sexuality A greater understanding of the impact of HIV treatment on prevention is changing the experience of being in a relationship with a partner of a

Federal data shows that while the national average for new HIV infections is 5.9 per 100,000 people, in some First Nations communities, the numbers jump to 63.6 new infections per 100,000 people. On Saskatchewan’s Ahtahkakoop First Nation, 60 of 1,700 reserve members, or about 3.5 percent of the population, are HIV positive. Those rates are

This week marks the historic visit of Pope Francis to the USA. During his first stop in Washington, DC at a White House welcoming ceremony, the Pope called on all American women and men of good will to “support the efforts of the international community to protect the vulnerable in our world and to stimulate

Countries adopt an ambitious new development agenda that will leave no one behind NEW YORK/GENEVA, 25 September 2015-UNAIDS has welcomed the adoption by world leaders of the new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals which set the framework for global development policy over the next 15 years. The ambitious agenda outlines 17 goals ranging from ending