Timothy Ray Brown, First Person To Be Cured of HIV, Dies Aged 54
Source: The Guardian
Timothy Ray Brown, who made history as “the Berlin patient”, the first person known to be cured of HIV infection, has died. He was 54. Brown died on Tuesday at his home in Palm Springs, California, according to a social media post by his partner, Tim Hoeffgen.
The cause was a return of the cancer that originally prompted the unusual bone marrow and stem cell transplants Brown received in 2007 and 2008, which for years seemed to have eliminated both his leukemia and HIV, the virus that causes Aids.
“Timothy symbolized that it is possible, under special circumstances,” to rid a patient of HIV – something that many scientists had doubted could be done, said Gero Huetter, the Berlin physician who led Brown’s historic treatment.
“It’s a very sad situation” that cancer returned and took his life, because he still seemed free of HIV, said Huetter, who is now medical director of a stem cell company in Dresden. Brown was working in Berlin as a translator when he was diagnosed with HIV and then later, leukemia...
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/30/timothy-ray-brown-hiv-aids-dies-berlin-patient
- Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the Berlin patient, shown in 2012.
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