HIV patient claims ‘miracle cure’

MEDICS yesterday urged a man who is the first person in the world to apparently cure himself of the HIV virus to come forward for more tests.

Scotsman Andrew Stimpson, 25, was diagnosed as being HIV-positive in August 2002, but 14 months later, blood tests gave him the all-clear.

London-based Stimpson, from Largs in Ayrshire, told two Sunday newspapers he felt special and blessed to have been “cured” and that he looked forward to helping doctors in their bid to beat the killer condition.