March 2019
Adam Castillejo Confirmed as Second Person Cured of HIV
Health UK People
Adam Castillejo, a British-Venezuelan man known as 'The London Patient', was confirmed as the second person cured of HIV after a bone marrow transplant from a donor carrying the CCR5-delta32 mutation. He had stopped antiretroviral medication in 2017 and remained HIV-free. Castillejo publicly revealed his identity in March 2020, saying he wanted to be 'an ambassador of hope'.
Impact & Significance
Confirmed that the Berlin Patient's cure was not a one-off, reinvigorating research into gene-based HIV cure strategies.
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- March 2019
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- 2010-2019
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Questions This Event Helps Answer
Q How did HIV/AIDS change public health and activism? HIV/AIDS changed public health by forcing faster surveillance, treatment approval, community-led prevention, visible memorialisation and international awareness. Q How did equality law change public services and workplaces? It moved LGBTQ+ equality into services, employment, schools and official data rather than leaving it only as criminal-law reform. Q How did HIV blood policy and cure research change LGBTQ+ history? They shifted HIV history from crisis response toward care access, evidence-based blood policy and scientific proof that cure was possible in rare cases.
