Only Man Cured Of HIV

Timothy Ray Brown was the first man cured of HIV. But he initially opted against the stem cell transplant that would later make history, he reveals in a new essay. The first man cured of HIV, formerly known only as the �Berlin Patient,� released a first-person account Tuesday of his breakthrough stem cell transplant. Timothy Ray Brown�s essay, which was published in the journal Aids Research and Human Retroviruses, gives an in-depth look at the events surrounding his widely reported 2007 transplant.