Timothy Ray Brown (1966 – 2020), first person cured of HIV infection
Timothy Ray Brown was known as the “Berlin patient,” the first person who was known to have been cured of HIV infection.Brown was working as a translator in Berlin in the 1990s when he was diagnosed with HIV. He took protease inhibitors, allowing him to have a near normal life expectancy, but in 2006, he was also diagnosed with leukemia.