The western Canadian province of British Columbia will implement a new, aggressive strategy to expand antiretroviral coverage in order to curb new HIV infections, B.C.’s health minister, George Abbott, announced today. The new policy is based on a mathematical model from the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, published in the July 1st edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, and when implemented as early as this autumn, will be the first time that anti-HIV treatment has officially been used as an HIV prevention tool. More >>