First patient 'cured' of HIV?
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Timothy Ray Brown, from San Francisco, had been living with HIV for over a decade when, in 2006, he was diagnosed with leukemia. Brown moved to Germany in 1993 and was treated for his leukemia at a clinic in Berlin where, after unsuccessful chemotherapy, doctors gave him a bone marrow transplant from a donor who had a genetic resistance to the HIV virus.
Brown’s case was first reported to the media in 2008. At this point, 20 months after the bone marrow transplant, he seemed to be completely...
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