Ray Brown, the First Person who Cured of HIV

HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a malignant disease incurable. But Timothy Ray Brown, who was diagnosed with HIV in 1995 became the first person the virus can be eliminated from the body.

Timothy Ray Brown (45 years) who now live in the Bay Area, San Francisco United States is entered into the scientific journal as the first person in the history of the world that HIV virus can be eliminated from the body. Doctors call this condition as 'fuctional cure'.

While living in Berlin, Germany, Brown was also known to suffer from leukemia and HIV. At that time doctors gave it a bone marrow transplant. And apparently the result of stem cell transplants performed in 2007 was extraordinary.

"I stopped taking HIV medications at the time I get a transplant and never eat them again, and the disease was effectively lost," said Brown, as quoted from CBSNews, Monday (06/06/2011).

Brown said the only medical problems faced on that day is a disorder in speech and motor skills caused by nerve damage after treatment, but the longer this condition is getting better.

So far, Brown is known as 'The Berlin Patient' who received stem cells from donors who are immune to HIV. The fact is there are about 1 percent of Caucasians are immune to HIV. Those people can develop immunity against the HIV virus and later immunity is lowered into the next generation.

And now Brown is very happy for being the first person to be cured of HIV. Although still continue to be monitored by a team of doctors from San Francisco General Hospital.

"If you take the white blood cells from a person and can manipulate it so they no longer infected by HIV, and these white blood cells into the immune system as a whole to the individual. This condition is called functional recovery (functional cure)," said Dr. Jay Levy is one of the discoverers of the HIV virus.

Brown medical procedures performed somewhat radical and may not be true for many people with HIV. This is because of the difficulty in conducting stem cell transplantation and find the right donor.

But this could be a gate in the field of 'cure research' which is now getting more attention. The words of Brown like, 'I'm cured of HIV. I used to have HIV, but not now 'becomes the words that enough hearts attached to the scientific community.