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Limits RegistryTimothy Ray Brown, the 'Berlin patient', received stem-cell transplants in 2007–2008 at Charité in Berlin for leukaemia from a donor carrying two copies of the CCR5-Δ32 mutation, which blocks HIV entry. Gero Hütter's team reported in the New England Journal of Medicine in February 2009 that HIV remained undetectable without treatment; Brown stayed HIV-free until his death from leukaemia in 2020.
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Timothy Ray Brown, the 'Berlin patient', received stem-cell transplants in 2007–2008 at Charité in Berlin for leukaemia from a donor carrying two copies of the CCR5-Δ32 mutation, which blocks HIV entry. Gero Hütter's team reported in the New England Journal of Medicine in February 2009 that HIV remained undetectable without treatment; Brown stayed HIV-free until his death from leukaemia in 2020.
The year in which a peer-reviewed journal first reported long-term HIV remission without antiretroviral therapy, later accepted as a cure.
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Limits Registry. LR-FIRST-PERSON-CURED-OF-HIV. First person reported cured of HIV. 2026.