February 7, 2007
An HIV positive patient is the first person ever to be cured of HIV.
An HIV positive patient is the first person ever to be cured of HIV. Called “The Berlin Patient”, he later decides to make his name – Timothy Ray Brown – public. He had a bone-marrow transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to HIV. In 2019, another HIV positive person – called “The London Patient” – was reported showing no trace of the virus after more than 18 months, also after a bone marrow transplant from an HIV resistant donor.
Timothy Ray Brown: “I Am the Berlin Patient: A Personal Reflection”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4287108/pdf/aid.2014.0224.pdf