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.