First man ‘cured of HIV’ reveals he now has terminal cancer

Timothy Ray Brown (Manuel Valdes/AP)

Timothy Ray Brown, the first person believed to have been cured of HIV, has said he is now terminally ill from a recurrence of the cancer that prompted his historic treatment 12 years ago.

Mr Brown, dubbed “the Berlin patient” because of where he lived at the time, had a transplant from a donor with a rare, natural resistance to the AIDS virus.