Timothy Ray Brown ( born 1966 ) is an American considered to be the first person cured of HIV/AIDS . Brown was called " The Berlin Patient " at the 2008 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections , where his cure was first announced , in order to preserve his anonymity , and because he lived in , and was treated in Berlin . He chose to come forward in late-2010 . “ I did n’t want to be the only person cured , ” he said . “ I wanted to do what I could to make a cure possible . My first step was releasing my name and image to the public . ” Eleven years later , nearly on the same date , at the same conference , it was announced that it appeared that a second man had been cured ; he was called the " London Patient . " He also received a bone marrow transplant to treat a cancer ( Hodgkin 's lymphoma ) but was given weaker immunosuppressive drugs . The selected donor also carried the CCR5-Δ32 mutation
Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
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Timothy Ray Brown