1996

Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned, is born at the Roslin Institute in Scotland.

France tests the last atomic bomb.

The Nintendo 64 video game system is released.

BC Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Task Force is created.

International Conference on AIDS (IAS) is held in Vancouver. Over 15,000 advocates, researchers, health care workers, and people living with HIV/AIDS travel to Vancouver from 125 countries to partake or listen to over 5,000 presentations.Dr. Julio Montaner and his team presents HAART (Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy), which is still a treatment used to date.

The 'AIDS Circus is in Town' article is circulated, which reveals many of the homophobic viewpoints and distaste regarding the lAS conference being held in Vancouver.

HIV/AIDS researcher, Dr. David Ho, advocates for a new strategy for treating HIV - 'hit early, hit hard.' He is named TIME Magazine's 'Man of the Year.

The Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) is established with the aim to coordinate a global response to the pandemic.

Jonathon Larson, playwright of the musical 'Rent, dies at age 35.

'Aboriginal Communities and AIDS' collaborates two organizations, Canadian AIDS Society and Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network, to address the increasing number of AIDS reports found in the aboriginal populations.

The Canadian Treatment Action Council (CTAC), promotes public health policy and advocates for a holistic approach to the treatment of HIV/AIDS.