Medical Figure. Brown made history by becoming the first person to be cured of HIV/AIDS. When his cure was made public at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in 2008, he was referred to only as "The Berlin Patient." He chose to come forward in 2010, citing his desire to "do what I could to make a cure possible." A native of Seattle, Brown traveled across Europe in the early 1990s and was diagnosed with HIV in 1995 while living and studying in Berlin. After being diagnosed with leukemia in 2006, Brown began receiving a series of stem cell transplants from donors who possessed a rare variant of a cell surface receptor. Following treatment, it was discovered that HIV had been eliminated from his body, though scientists who studied the case at the time warned that Brown's results were unusual. As of 2017, complete elimination of HIV in a patient had been replicated only six additional times. Brown went on to establish the Timothy Ray Brown Foundation, a HIV/AIDS support organization in Washington, D.C. In September of 2020, Brown announced that his cancer had returned. His death was announced on Sept. 29, 2020 by his longtime partner, Tim Hoeffgen. He is buried in Star, Idaho near extended family.
Medical Figure. Brown made history by becoming the first person to be cured of HIV/AIDS. When his cure was made public at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in 2008, he was referred to only as "The Berlin Patient." He chose to come forward in 2010, citing his desire to "do what I could to make a cure possible." A native of Seattle, Brown traveled across Europe in the early 1990s and was diagnosed with HIV in 1995 while living and studying in Berlin. After being diagnosed with leukemia in 2006, Brown began receiving a series of stem cell transplants from donors who possessed a rare variant of a cell surface receptor. Following treatment, it was discovered that HIV had been eliminated from his body, though scientists who studied the case at the time warned that Brown's results were unusual. As of 2017, complete elimination of HIV in a patient had been replicated only six additional times. Brown went on to establish the Timothy Ray Brown Foundation, a HIV/AIDS support organization in Washington, D.C. In September of 2020, Brown announced that his cancer had returned. His death was announced on Sept. 29, 2020 by his longtime partner, Tim Hoeffgen. He is buried in Star, Idaho near extended family.
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