Treatment as Prevention¨

Testing HIV positive is no longer a death sentence-a fact that stands as one of the great medical achievements of the twentieth century. The United Nations aims to diagnose 90 percent of all HIV infections worldwide by 2020, deliver antiretroviral therapy to 90 percent of those who test positive, and suppress the virus in 90

Intertwining health problems – syndemics – are associated with higher viral load and poorer adherence in HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) taking antiretroviral treatment (ART), investigators from the United States report in the online edition of AIDS. “Higher HIV viral load and lower ART adherence are, respectively, associated with increased syndemics count,”

CDRD Seminar featuring Dr. Julio S G Montaner, OC, OBC, MD, DSc (Hon), FRCPC, FCCP, FACP, FRSC, Director, BC-Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St Paul’s Hospital, Providence Health Care, Professor and Head of Division of AIDS, University of British Columbia, UBC and St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation Chair in AIDS Research, UNAIDS Special Advisor, HIV Therapeutics.

An AIDS research pioneer had the opportunity of a lifetime in March. He encountered a fellow Argentinian scientist: a chemist who wears a white zucchetto. Doctor Julio Montaner, the director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, briefly met Pope Francis at a Wednesday audience in March. The Catholic doctor detailed groundbreaking prevention treatments

Community campaigns, including those that provide screening or prevention services for multiple diseases, have proven effective in Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia. Further efforts are required to normalize HIV testing in health care settings. Recent efforts by Nigeria to provide HIV testing as the entry point for

World Health Day marks a time to reflect on the many public health challenges to be addressed around the globe, such as the 35 million people living with HIV and AIDS. It’s also a call to address such issues closer to home. In Canada, we can lead the way forward towards ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic,