Toward long-term health among people with HIV

Antonio Antela speaks to Daphne Boulicault, Commissioning Editor: Antonio Antela obtained his medical degree in 1983 followed by a specialty degree in internal medicine in 1989, both at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Between 1989 and 1991, he was a research fellow in infectious diseases at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital, in Madrid, Spain. In 1991, he worked as an attending physician in the HIV Unit of the Infectious Disease Department at the same institution, responsible for the management and follow-up of over 1500 HIV-infected patients. He subsequently obtained a PhD degree in 1999. He worked in the AIDS Program of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in Washington, DC, USA, in 2003, and in the Fundación VIHDA AIDS Clinic in Maragua (Kenya), in 2004. In 2006, he joined the HIV and Infectious Diseases Department of the University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela, where he still carries out his clinical and research work in the infectious diseases and HIV fields.