Treatment as Prevention¨

Canadians are rightly proud of the universal coverage provided by our national health-care system. Sadly, there are gaps in access with very grave consequences. In regions across the country, care and treatment fails to reach those living with HIV. Saskatchewan is among a number of regions in Canada, such as Manitoba and even our nation’s […]

AUSTIN, Texas – People who recently have been infected with HIV may not be as highly infectious as previously believed, a finding that could improve global efforts to prevent HIV transmission and save lives. In particular, the finding bolsters the strategy of treating patients with antiretroviral drugs before the onset of AIDS to prevent transmission.

Canadians are rightly proud of the universal coverage provided by our national health care system. Sadly, there are gaps in access with very grave consequences. In regions across the country, care and treatment is failing to reach those living with HIV. Saskatchewan is among a number of regions in Canada, such as Manitoba and even

Canadians are rightly proud of the universal coverage provided by our national health care system. Sadly, there are gaps in our access that have very grave consequences. In regions across the country, care and treatment is failing to reach those living with HIV. Saskatchewan is one a number of regions in Canada – along with

The Pope has endorsed a Canadian researcher’s pioneering use of antiretroviral drugs as a way to treat and prevent millions of HIV infections. Julio Montaner, director of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, met with Pope Francis and other officials Wednesday at the Vatican to discuss extending the life-saving treatment he pioneered at

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has given the ‘thumbs up’ to the ground-breaking work of a leading Argentinian-Canadian doctor who pioneered the use of Antiretroviral drugs to treat and prevent HIV infections. Dr Julio Montaner, who is director of the British Colombia Centre for Excellence in HIV-AIDS and a special advisor to the UNAIDS programme, met

REGINA – When Dr. Julio Montaner discovered a cocktail of drugs to treat HIV in the early 1990s, British Columbia was experiencing the “worst epidemic in the country.” The B.C. government made the treatment free and available to all HIV patients; as a result, the number of new cases have since decreased by two-thirds. “We

Giving both pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and antiretroviral therapy (ART) to heterosexual couples where one partner has HIV (serodiscordant couples) can almost eliminate the chance of infection in the HIV-negative partner, a study presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2015) in Seattle, USA, yesterday has shown. This study was a first in

Lately, we have been hearing a lot about the end of AIDS. Not by a cure but by targeted prevention and treatment measures to reduce the spread of HIV, including treatment as prevention® (TasP®) and the reduction of community viral load, the countdown to zero (eliminating new mother-to-child transmissions), the use of PrEP, etc. Despite