Treatment as Prevention®

Dr. Julio Montaner honoured to be invited to present on Treatment as Prevention® Vancouver recently hosted the conference of the Provincial and Territorial Ministers of Health, joined by federal Health Minister Jane Philpott, who gathered to discuss key health priorities for Canadians. After a decade of silence from the federal government regarding endorsement of Treatment […]

Ending AIDS as a pandemic is very possible and can be done using our made-in-Canada Treatment as Prevention (TasP) strategy, a disease elimination strategy pioneered by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE). UNAIDS has embraced the ambitious goal of ending AIDS by 2030, and this has now been formally endorsed within the United

UN 90-90-90 targets and TasP strategy key to ending HIV and AIDS pandemic Nearly 6,000 attendees from the global HIV community — scientists, clinicians, public health experts, community leaders, and media professionals — converged on Vancouver, British Columbia, for the 8th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2015) from July

Catholic Church a strong contributor to the fight against HIV and AIDS around the world Director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE), Dr. Julio Montaner, was met with a substantial level of interest as he brought to the Vatican examples of achievements in British Columbia through Treatment as Prevention (TasP). “It’s not

Proven model a cost-effective strategy to potentially eliminate other diseases such as hepatitis, writes Dr. Julio Montaner The national AIDS strategy is nearly a decade old and desperately needs updating. In B.C., our Treatment as Prevention (TasP) strategy has been successful in dramatically decreasing new cases of HIV and morbidity and mortality. It is now

Dr Yu Wang, Director-General, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention; Guy Saint-Jacques, Canadian Ambassador to China; Dr. Zunyou, Wu Director of the National Centre for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention / Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Christy Clark, Premier of B.C.; Dr. Julio Montaner, Director of BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS; and

Policymakers need to adopt Treatment as Prevention as a national strategy to fight HIV/AIDS, urges researchers at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) in an article published this month in HIV Medicine. New HIV diagnoses in British Columbia are continuing to decline at a rate faster than in other Canadian regions, report researchers