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HIV cured at Charite: the next Berlin patient

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Charite press report listing known HIV cure cases including Timothy Ray Brown and Adam Castillejo and explaining CCR5 stem-cell transplant context.

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Start with the answer 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. Read the topic guide HIV Blood Policy and Cure Research HIV history includes care law, blood-donation reform and proof-of-principle cure cases as well as activism and prevention.

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Publisher
Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin
Type
academic
Reliability
high
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3 pages

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Open original source https://www.charite.de/en/service/press_reports/artikel/detail/hiv_cured_at_charite_the_next_berlin_patient Accessed 4 June 2026 Open archived copy https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.charite.de/en/service/press_reports/artikel/detail/hiv_cured_at_charite_the_next_berlin_patient

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HIV Blood Policy and Cure Research

Used by Questions

How did HIV blood policy and cure research change LGBTQ+ history?

Used by Timeline Events

March 2019 HealthUKPeople

Adam Castillejo Confirmed as Second Person Cured of HIV

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'.