A conversation with the 'Berlin patient,' the first person cured of HIV

Published: Sept. 5, 2019, 4 p.m.

b'In 2007, a man known as the "Berlin patient" was cured of HIV through a stem cell transplant.\\nIt was an incredible accomplishment that researchers all over the world scrutinized for years to come. He was the first and only documented case of a person who has been cured of HIV until March of this year, when a second patient was declared HIV-free from a similar treatment. Today on Front Burner, a conversation with Timothy Ray Brown, the "Berlin patient."'