The Esperanza Patient
This post describes the case of a woman who appears to have been naturally cured of her HIV infection.
Berlin patient
The Berlin patient
Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, an estimated 75 million people have been infected with HIV. Only one person, Timothy Ray Brown, has ever been cured of infection. Brown was diagnosed with HIV while living in Berlin in 1995, and was treated with anti-retroviral drugs for more than ten years. In 2007 he was diagnosed with …