BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE for EXCELLENCE in HIV/AIDS Julio Montaner MD, DSc(hon), FRCPC, FCCP, FRSC, OBC Director, BC-Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Providence Health Care Professor of Medicine and Head, Division of AIDS, University of British Columbia Past-President, International AIDS Society To Download the Workshop’s Report go to: www.treatmentaspreventionworkshop.org/2012- workshop/
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BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE for EXCELLENCE in HIV/AIDS
Julio Montaner MD, DSc(hon), FRCPC, FCCP, FRSC, OBCDirector, BC-Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Providence Health Care
Professor of Medicine and Head, Division of AIDS, University of British ColumbiaPast-President, International AIDS Society
To Download the Workshop’s Report go to: www.treatmentaspreventionworkshop.org/2012-workshop/
Scientific Advisory Committee Julio S.G. Montaner, ChairElly Katabira, Co-ChairBertrand AudoinCurt BeckwithPedro CahnYvette CalderonChinazo CunninghamCarlos Del RioWafaa El-SadrAlison EndGeoff GarnettReuben Granich
Mark HarringtonGregory Kirk
Ann KurthViviane Dias Lima
Jacqueline Ying-Ru LoRob Lyerla
Jean-Michel MolinaJacques NormandMariangela Simao
Papa Salif SowBrian Williams
Zunyou Wu
Reported AIDS Rate in British Columbia
1983 - 2009
BC: Number of deaths (all-cause)
Updated from Montaner et al, Lancet 2010
Association between HAART Expansion and HIV New Diagnoses
British Columbia, 1996 - 2011
Patients Currently on HAARTNew HIV DiagnosesNew HIV Diagnoses - IDU
Canada: HIV+ tests by region by year (rate per 100,000 pop)
Treatment 2.0:A new prevention-treatment paradigm in the global response to HIV/AIDS- UNGASSNew York - 9 June 2010
“The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation - A Case for Action”
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his research with Richard Doll, which linked smoking with lung cancer. He was also widely acknowledged as the world’s leading medical statistician and a pioneer in the use of RCTs.