UBC and the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) will welcome more than 6,000 of the world’s leading HIV/AIDS experts to Vancouver next week for the 8th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment & Prevention.
IAS 2015 is the world’s largest scientific conference on HIV and AIDS. This year’s event is organized by the IAS in partnership with the UBC Division of AIDS and runs from July 19-22.
“We have made great strides in overcoming HIV and AIDS and I’m so proud of the contributions made by UBC researchers and the role of Vancouver and the province in tackling this epidemic,” said Arvind Gupta, president of UBC. “The work, however, is far from finished; worldwide 35 million people live with HIV and 1.5 million died of HIV-related illnesses in 2013. When the IAS Conference begins next week, it offers a critical platform for researchers to meet and discuss how to tackle this disease.”
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