The Berlin patient, first and only person 'cured' of HIV, speaks out
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - 18:40
in Health & Medicine
Timothy Ray Brown, long known only as the "Berlin Patient" had HIV for 12 years before he became the first person in the world to be cured of the infection following a stem cell transplant in 2007. He recalls his many years of illness, a series of difficult decisions, and his long road to recovery in a new first-person account.