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Julio Montaner, Killam Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia

On World AIDS Day, Canada must lead the way in combating HIV-AIDS

Provinces like British Columbia have reduced infection rates thanks to successful treatment and prevention measures. (Shutterstock)

Dec. 1 marks World AIDS Day. As researchers focused on fighting the HIV-AIDS epidemic, we are increasingly concerned all the progress made in the fight against the virus is at risk.

In 1996, the first remarkable breakthrough against the HIV-AIDS epidemic came with the novel combination of drugs that became known as Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART).

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