Treatment as Prevention®

Support base grows for advancing Treatment as Prevention as the global strategy

Vatican, Panama and formalized UNAIDS agreement add further momentum to saving lives, preventing infections and saving money Several recent international endorsements and agreements underline the growing universal acceptance of the made-in-BC Treatment as Prevention Strategy. Support from the Vatican, formalization of an agreement with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and a Memorandum […]

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Memorandum of understanding cements relationship between China and B.C.

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

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Treatment as Prevention leads to B.C. having largest decline in rate of new HIV diagnoses

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

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July/August 2011

HIV Leaders Advance Treatment as Prevention at IAS 2011 BC-CfE-pioneered treatment strategy gathers momentum at global conference The recent 6th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2011) was dominated by advances in and support for the Treatment as Prevention strategy to fight HIV and AIDS. The convention – which

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Apr-11

UN recommends made-in-BC strategy to reshape global AIDS response Secretary-General’s report calls for linkage of treatment and prevention Treatment as Prevention, the groundbreaking HIV treatment paradigm pioneered at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE), has been endorsed by a recently released United Nations report. The report identifies Treatment as Prevention as a key

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Mar-11

China chooses made-in-BC approach to combat HIV and AIDS worldwide World’s most populous nation embraces treatment as prevention The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) hosted a Chinese delegation led by Dr. Zunyou Wu last year to share their expertise on the internationally recognized treatment as prevention strategy and collaborate on the development of

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Oct-09

NIDA invests $50 million to evaluate made-in-BC strategy for control of HIV/AIDS The US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) intends to fund research worth up to US$50 million over five years to evaluate the “seek-and-treat” strategy originally developed at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE). NIDA has issued a Request for Applications

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The BC-CfE Laboratory is streamlining reporting processes for certain tests in order to simplify distribution and record-keeping, and to ensure completeness of results. Beginning September 2, 2025, results for the ‘Resistance Analysis of HIV-1 Protease and Reverse Transcriptase’ (Protease-RT) and ‘HIV-1 Integrase Resistance Genotype’ tests will be combined into a single ‘HIV-1 Resistance Genotype Report’.
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