Relay: the facts about HIV and you

Relay is a national magazine that provides people living with HIV up-to-date, reliable information written by Canadian doctors. Relay is published 3 times a year in English and French by Parkhurst Publishing Ltd.

Relay is a publication for people who have already been diagnosed HIV+ and should not be used for purposes of self-diagnosis or as an alternative to medical care. If you think you might be HIV+, see your physician.

Although every precaution is taken to ensure that information contained in articles and advertisements is accurate as of the date of publication, differences of opinion exist. The views expressed in articles are those of the authors and are not necessarily shared by the publisher.

The contents of each issue of Relay is determined by the Editors-in-Chief and the members of the Editorial Advisory Board.

Editors-in-Chief
English edition
Dr. Marianne Harris, CCFP, is a family doctor who for the past 11 years has been doing HIV/AIDS clinical research at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in Vancouver.

French edition
Dr. Harold Dion, CCFP, FCFP, is a family physician at the Clinique médicale l'Actuel in Montréal, a member of the Québec advisory committee on the care of people living with HIV/AIDS and Chair of the Board of the Québec College of Family Physicians.

Editorial Advisory Board
Dr. Jean-Guy Baril is a general practitioner specializing in HIV/AIDS at the Clinique médicale Quartier Latin in Montréal. He is Chief of Service Consultation-Liaison VIH-sida at CHUM (University of Montréal hospital centre) and he chairs the Québec advisory committee on the care of people living with HIV/AIDS.

Dr. Alex Klein is an HIV primary care physician in private practice and a family practitioner at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.

Dr. Colin M. Kovacs, FRCPC, is academic staff in the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto and a researcher at the Canadian Immunodeficiency Research Collaborative.

Dr. Anita Rachlis, MEd, FRCPC, is a professor and Head of the Division of Infectious Disease at the University of Toronto. She is also Director of the HIV Ambulatory Clinic, a physician at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre and Associate Director of the Ontario Region Canadian HIV Trials Network.

Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy is an associate professor at McGill University and physician in the Division of Hematology and Immunodeficiency Service at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) in Montréal.

José Sousa is a member of the Québec provincial treatment committee and Chair of the Community Advisory Committee at the CTN (Canadian HIV Trials Network). He has been positive since 1985 and has followed the development of antiretrovirals since 1989.

Derek Thaczuk has worked and volunteered extensively within the HIV/AIDS community, including the Toronto PWA Foundation, the British Columbia Persons with AIDS Society, the Ontario HIV Treatment Network, the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange, and the Canadian Treatment Advocates Council. For the last several years, he has been a self-employed writer and editor.

Dr. Cécile Tremblay, FRCPC, is the director of the Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu's UHRESS Unit. She also directs a laboratory that studies new anti-HIV drugs and HIV vaccines.

Distribution of Relay magazine in 2010 is supported by grants from Bristol-Myers-Squibb and Gilead Canada.

We thank Abbott Laboratories for their support in previous years.

Relay is published by Parkhurst Publishing Ltd., Montreal, Québec.
Parkhurst does not assume responsibility or liability for the contents or opinions expressed herein.