The fact that Timothy Brown is a reasonably healthy 46-year-old is no small thing. Only a few years ago, he had AIDS.
"I feel good," Brown told ABC News. "I haven't had any major illnesses, just occasional colds like normal people."

Brown is the only person in the world to be cured of AIDS, the result of a transplant of blood stem cells he received to treat leukemia.
"My case is the proof in concept that HIV can be cured," he said.
Brown got lucky. The blood stem cells he received came from a donor with a special genetic mutation that made him resistant to HIV.

The genetic mutation occurs in less than 1 percent of Caucasians, and far less frequently in people of other races. Before Brown got his transplant in 2007, doctors tested nearly 70 donors for this genetic mutation before they found one who was a match.
But doctors hope that a similar solution could help other people with HIV: umbilical cord blood transplants.


Dr. Lawrence Petz, medical director of StemCyte, an umbilical cord blood bank, said although Brown was cured by his transplant, the process was complicated because the blood stem cells came from an adult donor.
"When you do that you have to have a very close match between donor and recipient," Petz said. "With umbilical cord blood, we don't need such a close match. It's far easier to find donor matches."
But it's still not that easy.

Petz and his colleagues have tested 17,000 samples of cord blood so far, and found just 102 that have the genetic HIV-resistant mutation. The team performed the first cord blood transplant on an HIV-infected patient a few weeks ago, and they have another transplant planned for a similar patient in Madrid, Spain, later this year. It will still be months before researchers can tell if the transplants have any effect on the patients' HIV.

Petz also noted that transplants aren't performed solely to treat AIDS. Patients who get them have an additional condition that requires a blood stem cell transplant. Curing their AIDS would be an incredible bonus.
"It can be done. It's just a matter of time," Petz said.
Brown had his transplant in February 2007.

Today, his body shows no signs of the virus.
Brown said he feels guilty being the only person to have been cured of the virus when millions still live with it. But he hopes his story will inspire others that a cure is possible.
"I don't want to be the only person in the world cured of HIV. I want a cure for everyone," he said.

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Another plus for mankind.

First 2 be cured of AIDS? capital lie. . .here in Nigeria people dey

Happy for the man. Hope others around the globe will benefit.

There is no problem without solution in as much there is Man and God

philip0906: First 2 be cured of AIDS? capital lie. . .here in Nigeria people dey

for where na?

this is goodness!!!!

I hear but its better to stay faithful than going through a transplant still kudos

so make we start to dey do 'skin 2 skin'?

puskin: @lasssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt.

Another plus for mankind.

because it came out frm the mouth of a white guy. Do u know how many blacks that have been cured of Aids?

This is old news. The problem is, that mutation is very rare.

9-zeros:
so make we start to dey do 'skin 2 skin'?

You try am, U dey seek for your own untimely expiration

Lab rat ?

I welcome this news wholeheartedly, I always believed that there is no problem without a solution!

I beg make I c road. for tbJ church we dey cure anything even AIDS

9-zeros:
so make we start to dey do 'skin 2 skin'?

yes

cryptic:

You try am, U dey seek for your own untimely expiration

u no see say d guy even look expired?

philip0906: First 2 be cured of AIDS? capital lie. . .here in Nigeria people dey

Kudos to the researchers,this is truly a plus for mankind. Yes there were stories in 1999,that one Dr Abalaka had discovered the cure and in a new magazine then he granted interviews and showed his test patients. But as I remember well he was shut down by the ministry of health(can't quite remember the minister of health then) but they claimed Dr Abalaka was a quack and didn't have sufficient empirical evidence to support his claim and that how Dr Abalaka lost everything as all his labs were even shut down. Sad but true

phadat: I hear but its better to stay faithful than going through a transplant still kudos

Nigerian mentality. So hiv is now transmitted just by being unfaithful?
Smh.

9-zeros:

u no see say d guy even look expired?

LOL...SO U wan expire like am?

first omo see lashing!!!...what has TBJ and co been doing all this while
hehehehehe...hohohohoho...hihihihihi

congrats old boy!

Hmmmmmm

Truely Nigerian mentality. HIV is not önly transmitted through s*x. Go read jare

cryptic:

LOL...SO U wan expire like am?

no, i just dey encourage others cuz naija population too much!

9-zeros:

no, i just dey encourage others cuz naija population too much!

Lol, bad Children

nor be dis same sickness wey oyakhilome dey cure through television every night of bliss?? oyibo nor reesh, jor!

H.I.V Aids still dey for his body, aids is incurable disease, ladies make u na no approach him he may infect u with it.

Hmm,tym 4 me 2 go baq 2 Ajip company(aji to aji).

phadat: I hear but its better to stay faithful than going through a transplant still kudos

why are u being so myopic...is it through sex only hiv/aids can be contracted?

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