#Timothy Ray Brown

An immune tag-team promises to hold the virus in check for years—even without medication. HIV was once a death sentence. Thanks to antiretroviral therapy, it’s now a chronic disease. But the daily treatment is for life. Without the drug, the virus rapidly rebounds. Scientists have long

Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know? Over a decade ago, someone was functionally cured of HIV through a stem cell transfusion, but the success has proven hard to replicate. Now, though, a second person is showing no signs of the virus after 18 months, and though the team who

Author: Matt Davis / Source: Big Think Timothy Brown became the first person to be cured of HIV in 2007. Recently, it’s been reported that a patient known as “the London patient” has also lost any trace of the HIV virus in their system. Now, a third patient appears to be in HIV remission known

Author: By​ Mindaugas / Source: Bored Panda There are many terrible diseases and viruses in this world that, no matter how hard modern medicine tries, we are not able to defeat. With more than 70 million people infected, and over 35 million deaths, HIV/AIDS is considered to be one of the most

Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think The New York Times reports that a team of scientists plan to announce tomorrow that a patient in London has been effectively cured of HIV. The cure reportedly was the result of a bone-marrow transplant that came with a genetic mutation that naturally