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This news is incredibly sad.
The first person in the world to be cured of HIV infection suffers from terminal cancer. Timothy Ray Brown is receiving palliative care in Palm Springs, California for leukemia, activist Mark King said in his Blog With.
Brown, now 54, made medical history when he was declared “cured” in 2008 after unprecedented treatment. Since then, the HI virus has not been detected in Brown’s body, said his partner Tim Hoeffgen King. The HI virus can trigger the immunodeficiency disease AIDS.
The American Brown was studying in Berlin in 1995 when he found out about his HIV infection. In 2006 he was also diagnosed with blood cancer. In the German capital, he was treated with stem cells from a donor who was immune to the HI virus due to a rare genetic change.
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In 2008, Brown was declared cured and world famous as a “Berlin patient.” Since 2011 he has returned to live in the United States.
Photo: Eric Risberg / AP Photo / dpa
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Last year, a second patient, who like Brown suffered from blood cancer in addition to his HIV infection, was declared cured. He, the so-called London patient, was also treated with donor bone marrow stem cells with a rare genetic change.
