A Unique HIV Case Inspires New Research Topics: Biology, Blog,
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in more than 20 years, the International AIDS Conference is
being held in the U.S. In 2010, President Obama lifted a more
than two decade old travel ban on HIV positive people entering
the country. The conference begins July 23rd in Washington D.C.
One of the topics sure to be high on the agenda is: Where are we
with a cure? More than 34 million people are living with
HIV/AIDS worldwide, but only one person has apparently been
cured of the virus. Amy Standen spoke with the man known in some
research circles as “the Berlin Patient.” THE BERLIN PATIENT
Timothy Ray Brown was diagnosed with HIV in 1995, when he was
living in Berlin. Nine years later, still in Germany, he
received another devastating diagnosis: leukemia. His doctor
there had a novel idea. Maybe he could treat both diseases at
once, by giving Brown a bone marrow transplant from a very
specific type of donor, one who was CC