Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the 'Berlin patient,' says doctors have told him he's 'cured of AIDS and will remain cured.'
Brown's case was a landmark medical advancement that researchers say could pave the way for future treatment of the insidious disease for its 34 million sufferers worldwide.
Brown had a blood stem cell transplant in 2007 to treat leukemia, using a donor with a rare gene mutation that provides natural resistance to HIV. Doctors declared him 'cured' soon after.
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