Memorial for Timothy Brown, first person cured of HIV, planned in Palm Springs
Timothy Ray Brown, the first known person to be cured of HIV, died of cancer in his Palm Springs home on Sept. 29, 2020. He was 54 years old. On Friday, he was memorialized in Palm Springs.
Brown learned he had HIV in the 1990s while working in Berlin, Germany. He received a transplant related to his leukemia in 2007 the cancer that would return years later leading to his death. It was while he was being treated for that cancer in Berlin that his HIV infection was cured. He became known as the Berlin Patient.