First person cured of HIV honored with new bench at Palm Springs park
Palm Springs, CALIF. - A man who beat the odds after becoming the first person to be cured of HIV was remembered Friday afternoon in Palm Springs. Family, friends, and those closest to Timothy Ray Brown gathered at Desert Healthcare Wellness Park on North Via Miraleste and East Tachevah Drive for a new bench dedicated to Brown. He’d be very pleased and have a big smile on his face, said Brown s partner, Tim Hoffgen.
Brown was known as The Berlin Patient after being given the name at the 2008 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, where his cure was first announced. He contracted the virus while studying abroad in Berlin in 1995. Brown later was diagnosed with leukemia. He underwent a stem cell procedure which ultimately made him HIV-free in 2007.
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Focused efforts are continuing to help undocumented workers and latinos access the coronavirus vaccines.
News Channel 3’s Dani Romero has more on the new strategic vaccine effort now initiated in the East Valley.
The push continues here in the Coachella Valley to get undocumented workers vaccinated.
“We know that we have great disparities between the East and the West, said Conrado Barzaga, CEO of Desert Healthcare District Foundation. We have to apply the definition of equity, which is giving everyone a fair chance at being healthy.”
Both the state and the county have been worked hard to make vaccines equitable throughout the pandemic.
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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.
Hundreds of east valley residents get vaccinated at North Shore mobile clinic
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News Channel 3’s Caitlin Thropay was out at the North Shore near the Salton Sea where a vaccination clinic took place on Saturday.
“I think this means a lot especially I know a lot of people here struggle with transportation and they often have to ride the bus to get to places so coming here to areas where they’re closer to is a lot better for them, Daniela Nunez, a Salton City resident told News Channel 3.