First person ever cured from HIV infection, Timothy Ray Brown, known as ‘the Berlin Patient’ dies of cancer – ABC News

Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to have been cured of HIV when he had a unique type of bone marrow transplant, has died in California after relapsing with cancer.

• Known as ‘the Berlin Patient’ Timothy Ray Brown was cured of HIV in 2007
• Doctors thought his leukaemia had also gone into remission, but it returned in the past year
• Mr Brown has been remembered for his efforts to raise awareness of the deadly disease

Mr Brown, 54, became known as the “Ber…

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