This second "Berlin patient" chose to come forward and make his name, Timothy Ray Brown, public in late 2010.
[1][2] Eleven years later, nearly on the same date, at the same conference, it was announced that it appeared that a third man had been cured; he was called the "London Patient".
[3] He also received a bone marrow transplant to treat a cancer (Hodgkin's lymphoma) but was given weaker immunosuppressive drugs.
[6][7] The world-renowned "second" Berlin patient, Timothy Ray Brown, had a bone marrow transplant on February 7, 2007, to cure his leukemia, and hopefully his HIV.
[10] The Visconti Cohort, a group of fourteen patients who received early therapy for the virus (described in a scientific paper published in 2013[11]), were considered to be in "long-term virological remission," meaning that they still harbor the virus within their bodies but HIV viral loads are low or undetectable despite being off antiretroviral therapy.
This information was revealed in the last two slides of a presentation given by Asier Sáez-Cirión at the International AIDS Society's Towards an HIV Cure Symposium in 2015.
[13] Timothy Ray Brown is the only individual who is considered to have a sterilizing cure, meaning there is strong evidence that he no longer harbors infectious HIV virus within his body.
[7] In 2014 a follow-up report in NEJM concludes "a likely explanation for control of viral replication in this patient is genetic background, regardless of intervention," although this point is still under debate.
His physician, Dr. Gero Hütter, at Charité Hospital in Berlin, arranged for him to receive a hematopoietic stem cell transplant from a donor with the "delta32" mutation on the CCR5 receptor.