Treatment as Prevention¨

Dr. Julio Montaner, Director of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS is not a man to mince his words or spare those in power a tongue lashing when he senses they could do more – much more – to fight the epidemic. “All the evidence is in. What we are lacking is political

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The number of new HIV infections continues to decline steadily in response to a greater uptake of antiretroviral therapy (ART) by people who are infected with HIV or at risk for infection. In fact, the tipping point in the AIDS epidemic has been reached, according to Salim Abdool Karim, MD,

“It’s time” was the unofficial theme, or perhaps subtext, of the International Treatment as Prevention Workshop held last week in Vancouver, a gathering of policy and decision makers, researchers and community from around the world. Altogether 250 delegates came from 41 countries to review progress and plan next steps. PositiveLite.com was there. Next steps do

Today, Europe’s community group for people with HIV launched a consensus statement, for endorsement by the HIV community, on using HIV treatment to prevent the transmission of HIV. The community consensus statement website is now live HERE. Please read, sign your support and share widely.

Scientific evidence is driving the expansion of HIV treatment, with new guidelines from the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2013 nearly doubling the number of people eligible. Countries are now being urged to implement the 2013 WHO HIV treatment guidelines by raising the threshold for treatment initiation from a CD4 count of 350 μ/mL to

Spain has released its updated HIV guidelines and among the key recommendations is expanding treatment to all people living with HIV. The new guidelines recommend provision of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to all patients with HIV to prevent its progression, lower the virus transmission, and limit harmful coexistent comorbidity effects. Spain’s guidelines follow the BC-CfE-pioneered Treatment

Yesterday was a day of historic for Panama to become the first country in Central America to bring Treatment as Prevention for HIV, which adopts strategies as a national policy on HIV/AIDS. Research recently published by the British Columbia Centre for Excellence (BC-CfE), found that the expansion of the treatment against HIV in British Columbia