From the Archive: Dr. Julio Montaner and the Revolution in HIV Treatment

This live interview was first broadcast in April 2012 on my former radio show, Prof Talk, on CiTR 101.9 FM at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Julio Montaner is a University Killam Professor of Medicine at UBC, Executive Director and Physician-in-Chief of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, and Head of HIV/AIDS at St. Paul’s Hospital. He is widely recognized as one of the fathers of highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART, and later pioneered Treatment as Prevention, using effective HIV treatment not only to prevent illness and death but also to stop transmission. It was such an honour to interview Dr. Montaner in 2012, and it has been especially meaningful to return to this conversation fourteen years later and finally offer it a full transcript. Listen: CiTR | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube The Blue Hour, hosted by Farha Guerrero, airs live every Tuesday at 2 p.m. PT on CiTR 101.9 FM at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver,…