Doctor said the man, 45 years in California may be the first person who recovers from AIDS. It is known of his HIV-resistant gene. Like what? 'Timothy Ray Brown' known positive HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) in 1995. Now, he entered the scientific journal as the first person who managed to 'remove' the HIV virus from his body completely. Doctors call this condition 'functional cure'.
In 2008, Brown lived in Berlin (Germany) living with HIV and leukemia. There, scientists perform bone marrow transplants to treat leukemia. Scientists say, Brown received marrow from donors are included in 1% of Caucasians are immune to HIV.
"I stopped going for treatment of HIV in the day I got the transplant," said the man well known with the 'Berlin patient'. Researcher of AIDS Dr. Jay Levy of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), said Brown's case opens the door 'healing research'. But , doctors emphasize, Brown radical procedures may not fit with other HIV sufferers because of the difficulty of marrow grafts and find the right donor.
"Surely you do not want to do this transplant because of the risk of death," said Paul Volberding of UCSF. Many questions unanswered about the treatment of Brown, he added. "One element of treatment appears to allow the virus out of his body," he continued. And this will be an interesting study, he concluded.
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