Only person to be cured of HIV unveils foundation to help search for wider cure

The only person to ever be cured of the HIV virus is launching a new foundation to help in the search for a wider cure.

Timothy Ray Brown, a 47-year-old from Seattle in the US, rose to fame as the so-called “Berlin patient” after doctors tried a novel technique to use an HIV-resistant donor for a stem cell transplant to treat his leukaemia diagnosis.

Since 2007, he has had two, high-risk, bone marrow transplants and continues to test negative for HIV.