Treatment as Prevention¨

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today their support for expanding HIV treatment through a more strategic use of antiretroviral medications to significantly reduce the transmission of the virus. WHO’s proposal for HIV antiretroviral treatment will be presented at the upcoming International AIDS Conference (July 22 – 27 in Washington, D.C.), the biennial meeting of […]

The following op-ed was written by Dr. Julio Montaner. When investigating disease and developing effective management strategies, time is more than money – it is lives saved, cases averted, and pain and suffering pre-vented. That’s why the call from Van-couver-Quilchena MLA Colin Hansen (Vancouver Sun, March 14) to open the provincial health care database to

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The province of British Columbia has seen encouraging results in the use of HIV/AIDS treatment as a way to prevent new cases of infection. The data was presented by Julio Montaner and Evan Wood of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS at the University of British Columbia. In the mid-90s, Vancouver had one of

Dr Julio Montaner, head of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS is proud of what he and his Province have achieved in reducing HIV transmission rates through treatment as prevention strategies. It’s a trend he doesn’t see elsewhere in Canada, not that he hasn’t tried to make it happen. “The public needs to

A dramatic drop in the number of new HIV infections in British Columbia shows that a treatment-as-prevention strategy is making a difference, says a leading AIDS investigator who is frustrated that other parts of the country haven’t embraced the concept to the same extent. “The truth is that there is no reason why we should

New H.I.V. cases and AIDS deaths are both going steadily down in British Columbia, according to data released last week. “We’re particularly pleased to see that our treatment-as-prevention strategy has taken off big-time,” said Dr. Julio S. G. Montaner, director of the British Columbia Center for Excellence in H.I.V./AIDS. His center was a pioneer in

On 1 December, George Washington University in Washington, D.C., hosted “The Beginning of the End of AIDS,” a splashy World AIDS Day event that featured three U.S. presidents, business magnates, and rock stars. The catalyst that brought them together was something Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. government HIV/AIDS scientist, told the crowd even 1 year

Canadians living with HIV/AIDS should no longer face a possible prison sentence for failing to disclosure their HIV status to sexual partners, says an acclaimed Canadian doctor who helped revolutionize the treatment of HIV worldwide. Today’s triple drug cocktails known as HAART, or highly active antiretroviral therapy, can reduce the viral load of people living