Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to have been cured of HIV infection, says he is now terminally ill from a recurrence of the cancer that prompted his historic treatment 12 years ago.
Mr Brown's transplant was only partly successful — his HIV seemed to be gone but his leukemia was notMr Brown, dubbed 'the Berlin patient' because of where he lived at the time, had a transplant from a donor with a rare, natural resistance to the AIDS virus.
"Timothy proved that HIV can be cured, but that's not what inspires me about him," said Dr Steven Deeks, an AIDS specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, who has worked with Mr Brown to further research toward a cure. Dr Gero Huetter, a blood cancer expert at the University of Berlin, believed that a marrow transplant was Mr Brown's best chance of beating the leukemia.
At an AIDS conference in July, researchers said they may have achieved a long-term remission in a Brazil man by using a powerful combination of drugs meant to flush dormant HIV from his body.
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