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rehe first person in the world who could be “cured” after an HIV infection developed terminal cancer. Timothy Ray Brown is receiving palliative care in Palm Springs, California for leukemia, activist Mark King said on his blog.
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.
American citizen 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. In 2008, Brown was declared cured and world famous as a “Berlin patient.” Since 2011 he has returned to live in the United States.
In an interview with the US news agency AP, Brown said that the cancer returned last year.
A second patient who, like Brown, suffered from blood cancer along with his HIV infection, was declared cured last year. He, the so-called London patient, was also treated with donor bone marrow stem cells with a rare genetic change.
