Timothy Ray Brown, the First Successful People Recover From AIDS

Doctors said the man 45 years the name Timothy Ray Brown in California may be the first to recover from AIDS. It is known of his HIV-resistant gene.

Timothy Ray Brown is known positive for 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'.

Timothy Ray Brown In 2008, Brown lived in Berlin and HIV and leukemia. There, scientists perform bone marrow transplants to treat leukemia. Scientists said that Brown received marrow from donors are included in the 1% of Caucasians are immune to HIV.

"I stopped going for treatment of HIV in the day I got the transplant it," said the man nicknamed the 'Berlin patient' is.

AIDS researchers, Dr.. Jay Levy of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), said Brown's case opens the door 'healing research'.

However, doctors emphasize, Brown radical procedures may not fit with other HIV sufferers because of the difficulty marrow transplant and found a suitable 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," she added. This will be an interesting study, he concluded.

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