Treatment as Prevention: Containment of TB, HIV and Hep C during the next decade

Introduction

Join three of Canada’s prominent physicians, Drs. Allan Ronald, Joel Kettner and Julio Montaner, for a webinar that explores the topic of Treatment as Prevention for TB, Hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS.

During this webinar we hear from three Canadian experts in the field of treatment as prevention:

Dr. Joel Kettner, NCCID Scientific Director (presenting on the Levels of Prevention of Disease);

Dr. Allan Ronald, NCCID Scientific Advisor (presenting overview of basic concepts of treatment as prevention as well examples of its effective application, e.g., TB, Hepatitis C); and,

Dr. Julio Montaner, UBC Professor of Medicine, St. Paul’s Hospital’s Foundation Chair in AIDS Research, Director of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS (presenting on the current argument for using treatment as prevention for changing the trajectory of the HIV/AIDS epidemic).