Treatment as prevention is a new—but underutilized— approach to preventing HIV/AIDS in B.C.
Leading international HIV/AIDS expert and researcher Dr. Julio Montaner will be in Nanaimo next week to speak about the “Treatment as Prevention” approach to HIV. Remarkable advances in HIV treatment have been achieved in B.C. over the past two decades, but uptake of those treatments remains suboptimal—particularly among hard to reach individuals with challenges related to drug dependency, mental illness, limited education and unstable housing.
We speak with Dr. Julio Montaner about highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and other developments in HIV treatment and prevention.
