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  2. Timothy Ray Brown - Wikipedia

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    Timothy Ray Brown (March 11, 1966 [1] – September 29, 2020) was an American considered to be the first person cured of HIV/AIDS. [2] [3] Brown was called "The Berlin Patient" at the 2008 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, where his cure was first announced, in order to preserve his anonymity. He chose to come forward in ...

  3. A 7th person with HIV is probably cured after stem cell ... - AOL

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    A German man has probably been cured of HIV, a medical milestone achieved by only six other people in the more than 40 years since the AIDS epidemic began.

  4. HIV is no longer a death sentence. But why is a viable cure ...

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    On a special episode (first released on September 25, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: This year, for just the seventh time since the start of the HIV pandemic, a person was cured of the virus. That ...

  5. Virgin cleansing myth - Wikipedia

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    The virgin cleansing myth (also referred to as the virgin cure myth, virgin rape myth, or simply virgin myth) is the belief that having sex with a virgin girl cures a man of HIV/AIDS or other sexually transmitted diseases. [1] Anthropologist Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala says the myth is a potential factor in infant rape by HIV-positive men in South ...

  6. In remission from HIV, a sixth person could join the ... - AOL

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    A man with HIV who underwent a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer has been in remission for nearly two years, joining five others who are cured or possibly cured.

  7. Management of HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, it is not known whether or not the two patients are cured of HIV infection. The cure might be confirmed if the therapy were to be stopped and no viral rebound occurred. [138] In March 2019, a second patient, referred to as the "London Patient", was confirmed to be in complete remission of HIV. Like the Berlin Patient, the London ...

  8. A 5th person is likely cured of HIV, and another is in long ...

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    Two new cases are presented Wednesday at the International AIDS Conference in Montreal. A 5th man is deemed likely cured through a stem cell transplant.

  9. HIV - Wikipedia

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    Two types of HIV have been characterized: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is the virus that was initially discovered and termed both lymphadenopathy associated virus (LAV) and human T-lymphotropic virus 3 (HTLV-III). HIV-1 is more virulent and more infective than HIV-2, [20] and is the cause of the majority of HIV infections globally. The lower ...