Treatment as Prevention¨

Cities in the South are experiencing record-high rates of HIV infection among African Americans. Pope Francis sent a message of hope to the International AIDS Society’s 8th Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention this past summer. He told participants, “that all advances in pharmacology, treatment, and research will be matched by a firm commitment […]

Editor’s note: This open letter was sent to Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, as well as NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, Green Leader Elizabeth May, and Assembly of First Nations national chief Perry Bellegarde. Dear Prime Minister, It gives me great pleasure to report that our 90-90-90 Target will be further considered as

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 different HIV status, according to a qualitative Australian study published last week in the Sociology of Health and Illness. A biomedical intervention appears to be having unexpected effects – loosening

A B.C. HIV/AIDS pioneer who has helped establish a standard of care for treatment and prevention that is used worldwide is calling on the leaders of Canada’s federal parties to endorse an ambitious global target for fighting AIDS. In an open letter sent on Tuesday, Julio Montaner, director of B.C.’s Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS,

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently declared that the world will soon welcome a “generation free of AIDS”. His bold statement followed the release of latest UNAIDS research showing that across the globe new HIV infections have fallen by 35% and AIDS-related deaths by 41% since 2000. … Initiatives to reduce HIV transmission focus heavily

Research aims to improve HIV care and prevention among young men of color Newswise – Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles have received an $8.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct research to improve HIV care and prevention in a study focusing on Black, Latino and multiracial gay and bisexual

More than 3,000 community leaders, activists, government officials, and others involved in the fight against AIDS turned out Sept. 10-13 for the 19th Annual United States Conference on AIDS, which was held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C. Paul Kawata, executive director of the National Minority AIDS Council, the D.C.-based group that

Bob Leahy talks with the world’s leading treatment as prevention advocate, B.C.’s Dr. Julio Montaner, about new research that broadens the case for early treatment – and why Canada still needs to fully embrace its benefits. Vancouver, BC [September, 2015] A new study finds patients who start HIV combination antiretroviral treatment at high CD4 levels

Two members of the Department of Medicine – Professor Emeritus Robert C. Brunham and Professor Julio Montaner – are being recognized by the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Brunham, the former Executive and Scientific Director of the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, has been elected a Fellow of the RSC. Dr. Montaner, Head of the

Two procedures which the federal government will soon carry out a study on have shown promise in tackling HIV infection in the country, particularly for people who are at substantial risk of HIV, and also in reducing the infectiousness of people already infected with HIV-1. They study which will be carried out by the National