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Interview: Talking Treatment as Prevention with Julio Montaner
April 30, 2013 | Positive Lite
Bob Leahy sits down and asks the hard questions with Treatment as Prevention's foremost proponent, Dr. Julio Montaner.
Moving forward on Treatment as Prevention
April 30, 2013 | Positive Lite
Acknowledging that “we have a consensus in this room but not outside this room” BC-CfE’s Dr. Julio Montaner, looking dapper in a dark suit and bright red tie, opened the third annual International Treatment as Prevention Workshop in Vancouver last week.
Call for urgent scale up of access to treatment
April 23, 2013 | UNAIDS
This week, HIV experts are once again gathering in Vancouver. This time to discuss another important scientific breakthrough—recent research showing that HIV treatment not only protects the health of people living with HIV, it also dramatically reduces the likelihood of transmitting the virus to others.
Doctors prescribed addiction training
April 22, 2013 | Vancouver Courier
Dr. Evan Wood believes better trained doctors would help reduce the stigma against people with addictions by increasing understanding that addiction is a medical condition with social implications and medical interventions can dramatically improve health.
Treatment as Prevention captures imagination of policy makers
April 22, 2013 | Metro News
Vancouver has hosted the International HIV Treatment as Prevention Workshop before, but this time feels different to Dr. Julio Montaner.
Innovative Vancouver addiction medicine program receives international accreditation
April 16, 2013
St. Paul’s Hospital Goldcorp Fellowship in Addiction Medicine will be the first in Western Canada to be accredited by American Board of Addiction Medicine
Liver diseases pose major problem in future for health care professionals: report
April 3, 2013 | Vancouver Sun
British Columbia needs more resources dedicated to the awareness, prevention and treatment of liver disease if it is to head off a brewing public health crisis, says one of the province’s leading liver specialists.
British Columbia launches plan to fight against viral hepatitis based on HIV model
April 2, 2013 | Vancouver Sun
The plan to wipe out HIV infection by British Columbia health experts was so successful, they're trying to replicate the idea for the treatment of viral hepatitis.
Canadian Partners Pump $150M into New Personalized Medicine Projects
March 27, 2013
Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research said today that a number of new genomics and personalized medicine research projects focused on tackling common, complex, and rare diseases have received $150 million in new grants.
Was that toddler really cured of HIV?
March 20, 2013 | The Washington Post
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been at the forefront of HIV/AIDS research for 30 years and says the miracle cure of a Mississippi toddler may not have been as straightforward as it appeared. He also discusses how we might defeat the virus.