BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS: 20 years of progress

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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – There has been a lot of struggle and triumph; 20 years of award-winning research and life-saving advancements is being celebrated in HIV/AIDS research in BC today.

It hasn’t always been easy, says Dr. Julio Montaner with the BC Centre for Excellence. He says it took a good 10 years of struggle to finally get the recognition they needed.

“In the latter part of the 90s, we had really defined the new standard of care for the world. Mortality related to HIV/AIDS could be controlled greater than 90 per cent. The next breakthrough for us was in the last decade,” he explains.

In 2005-2006 it was found that certain treatments could make many patients virtually non-infectious.

“We want, over the next five years, to show the world that applying what we know can actually lead to nearly a full control of this disease. Secondly, to use a roadmap that the epidemic has allowed us to develop to apply it to other conditions [like Hepatitis-C],” says Montaner.

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