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The First Person To Be Cured Of HIV Has Died Of Cancer At 54 – BuzzFeed News
“He never asked for the spotlight, and when he needed to step into it to give us this symbol of hope, he did so willingly and very graciously.”
Timothy Ray Brown, the first person to be cured of HIV, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 54.
Brown, widely known as “the Berlin patient,” was cured of HIV when he underwent a bone marrow transplant in 2007 to treat leukemia, which he separately had. The donor had a genetic mutation called “CCR-delta 32” that made him resistant to HIV to the point of near immunity. When Brown received the transplant, that genetic resistance was passed on to him.
The discovery was announced at an AIDS conference i…
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