Treatment as Prevention¨

The United Nations global HIV/AIDS agency has not responded to claims that it is a homophobic organisation. Just over a month ago the boss of the NZ AIDS Foundation, which runs one of the world’s most successful HIV prevention programmes, described UNAIDS as homophobic and arrogant in its disregard for men who have sex with

TAIPEI, Taiwan — The chances of a woman getting HIV from a man is 20-times greater than the other way around in Taiwan, a local group promoting AIDS awareness pointed out. The Taiwan Lourdes Association said that although there were only 1,755 female AIDS/HIV patients as of September, the chances of women getting infected via

Researchers and clinicians from six continents met recently at a conference hosted by the journals Cell and The Lancet to discuss steps to eliminate AIDS globally. Keynote speaker Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said an AIDS-free world will require certain preventive strategies, including the expansion of

HIV, at least in some parts of the world, may be developing a lower replicative capacity as it adapts to variations in the human immune system, studies in southern Africa and elsewhere suggest. Philip Goulder of the University of Oxford told the AIDS Vaccine conference last month that competition between HIV and certain varieties of

Last week France became the latest country to adopt the Treatment as Prevention strategy to combat HIV and AIDS. Treatment as Prevention (TasP) has been gaining momentum as the most effective strategy to end HIV/AIDS around the world since the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) first proposed the strategy in 2006. British Columbia

Bob Leahy: Thank you for talking to PositiveLite.com, Julio. The last time we talked was in January 2012 I think. How have things shifted on the treatment as prevention scene in the last fifteen months. Are you starting to feel optimistic in terms of what you’d like to see? Dr. Montaner: Well as you know

“We have an obligation to decide whether the evidence is enough. We’ve waited too long to do what we know is right. Enough is enough. We need to move to implement.” Acknowledging that “we have a consensus in this room but not outside this room” BCCFE’s Dr. Julio Montaner, looking dapper in a dark suit

Vancouver, 1996: Researchers electrify the International AIDS Conference with news of a stunning scientific breakthrough. Using a combination of medicines, they have been able to reduce the amount of virus in the blood of people living with HIV to virtually undetectable levels. In what became known as the “Lazarus Effect,” people once near death were

A small, select group of people infected with HIV showed extraordinary immune responses that were able to hold the virus in check after early and aggressive treatment. Researchers in France have closely followed 14 patients who were treated within 10 weeks of infection with combination antiretroviral drugs (cART) for three years on average and then