The first thing that can be said of Dr. Julio Montaner is that it is a true passion for the research and cure of HIV/AIDS, far from being a scientific obsession, was transformed into a legacy for mankind, that he wants to solve. Montaner spent the last twenty years of his scientific life to […]
The first thing that can be said of Dr. Julio Montaner is that it is a true passion for research and cure of HIV/AIDS, far from being a scientific obsession turned into a legacy for mankind, that he wants to solve.
Montaner devoted twenty years of his scientific life to investigate the HIV/AIDS virus and that somehow they are already known. He knew how to lay siege to the virus in 1996 when he led the discovery of antiretroviralsthe so-called “triple-therapy cocktail”, which could control the progression of the virus that causes it, and made it possible that today the infection becomes chronic in many patients.
This fundamental scientific step into the hands of Montaner and his team developed between theUniversity of British Columbia (UBC) and the Hospital St. Paul´s. both in Vancouver, Canada, transformed the management of HIV disease in the whole world.
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.
But Montaner decided to go further: it is proposed that treatment with antiretroviral drugs can also serve to prevent transmission from infected to uninfected people. Is now heading towards the second step pending: stop transmission of HIV/AIDS and bet on early prevention as the best Allied tool.
Infobae interviewed inviernos medicine Dr. Julio Montaner, following his busy schedule between Vancouver – your workplace – and Geneva, Switzerland, where participates in an International Conference on the theme, which absorbs it: the latest to defeat HIV/AIDS.
In dialogue with Infobae, Julio Montaner, director of the Center for excellence in HIV/AIDS in Vancouver, Canada, put in context his scientific work: “The advance of antiretroviral treatments have a very high value in what refers not only to preventing the mobility of mortality, but also to the prevention of transmission.”
“We must deepen access to screening and screening techniques to know the status of an infected with HIV/AIDS.” And how the same Montaner likes to say: “everyone has to know that it is negative”.
A savior for the world
Montaner has been awarded the most prestigious cloisters and scientific journals that publish their papers with admiration as Science – that in 2011 stood out it as the best scientific advance-; Lancet or the World Cultural Council, which gave the science Albert EinsteinWorld Award in 2010.It is an inquiry regarding privileged on the theme HIV/AIDS of the United Nations (UN) from your program UNAIDS; but mostly Montaner was able to change the evolution and prognosis for future generations of one of the most tremendous global pandemic diseases.