TIMOTHY RAY BROWN — THE “BERLIN PATIENT” 🩸🧬
For decades, HIV meant lifelong infection.
Medicine could suppress it—but could not eradicate it.
Then came one man who changed history.
Timothy Ray Brown was living with HIV and leukemia when he underwent stem-cell transplantation from a donor carrying the rare CCR5-Δ32 mutation.
And then something extraordinary happened…
HIV disappeared.
No antiretroviral therapy.
No viral rebound.
Years passed.
The virus never returned.
In 2009, he became the first person recognized as cured of HIV—turning what had seemed biologically impossible into proof that an HIV cure was possible.
One patient. One rare mutation. One moment that changed HIV medicine forever. 🧬🔥
In 2017, interns were earning UGX 750,000. We went to the President, explained the challenges faced by interns and doctors at large, and proposed that starting doctors earn UGX 5 million, while interns receive UGX 2.5 million.- Dr. Frank Asiimwe
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