Contra el virus HIV/SIDA

Un científico argentino estaría muy cerca de derrotar el virus del VIH/Sida. Se trata del Dr. Julio Montaner. Descubrió el “cóctel antirretroviral o de triple terapia”, la clave para transformar el manejo de la enfermedad.

Montaner dedicó los últimos veinte años de su vida científica a investigar sobre el VIH/sida. Supo cómo sitiar al virus en 1996 cuando lideró el descubrimiento de los antirretrovirales. Pudo controlar la progresión del virus que lo causa, y posibilitó que hoy la infección se volviera crónica en muchos pacientes.

La clave de la innovación de Montaner radica en que con su descubrimiento e investigación sobre los antirretrovirales se redujo la mortalidad y extendió la expectativa de vida de los enfermos.
Ahora se encamina hacia el segundo paso pendiente: frenar la transmisión del VIH/sida y apostar a la prevención temprana como la mejor herramienta aliada.

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Against HIV/AIDS

An Argentine scientist would be very close to defeat the HIV/AIDS virus. It’s Dr. Julio Montaner. He discovered the “anti-retroviral cocktail or triple therapy”, the key to transform the management of the disease.

Montaner devoted twenty years of his scientific life to research on HIV/AIDS. He knew how to besiege the virus in 1996 when he led the discovery of anti-retrovirals. He could control the progression of the virus that causes it, and made it possible that today the infection becomes chronic in many patients.

The key innovation of Montaner lies in that with its discovery and research on anti-retrovirals dropped the mortality and extended the life expectancy of patients.
It is now heading towards the second pending step: stop the transmission of HIV/AIDS and bet on early prevention as the best Allied tool.

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