First person cured of HIV

Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the "Berlin Patient", was diagnosed in 1995 as HIV positive and was treated with anti-retro viral for the next 11 years. In 2006 he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and received chemotherapy treatment. In 2007 German haematologist Gero Hutter gave Brown a stem cell transplant in which he used stem cells from a donor who had the CCR5 mutation, which makes cells immune to HIV. Brown ceased taking anti-retroviral drugs the day he received his stem cell transplant. On 24 July 2012 Brown appeared at the International AIDS Conference in Washington DC, USA, and announced that he was now free of HIV. Despite minute traces of HIV having been found in his body, Gero Hutter claims these are remnants which cannot replicate or cause a recurrence of the disease and Brown is believed to be the first person ever cured of HIV.