Berlin Patient Follow-Up 'Strongly Suggests' HIV Cure

Timothy Ray Brown gave an interview to German magazine Stern.

The “Berlin Patient” — a man living with HIV who underwent a transplant involving HIV-resistant stem cells in 2007 for the treatment of leukemia — has been classified as cured of his HIV, according to an update of the patient’s experience published online, ahead of print, on December 8 by the journal Blood. The man has remained off HIV treatment for three-and-a-half years with normal CD4 counts and no evidence of HIV replication.

Though it was initially suspected that HIV archived in the man’s cells would begin proliferating once his immune system began to recover from pre- and post-transplantation treatment, this was not observed and the team monitoring the patient now conclude, “our results strongly suggest that cure of HIV has been achieved in this patient.”

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