British chef who is second person in world to be cured of HIV shares identity
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mirror.co.ukThe British chef confirmed as only the second person in the world to be cured of HIV has been pictured for the first time. Adam Castillejo, 40, dubbed the “London Patient”, has been found to be free of the virus 30 months after a pioneering bone marrow transplant from a donor with HIV-resistant genes.
It came 12 years after the only other successful cure of 42-year-old American Timothy Ray Brown in Germany – who was known as the “Berlin Patient”.
However, the treatment is so risky it is only appropriate for HIV patients who have a deadly cancer. Mr Castillejo was diagnosed with blood cancer in 2012, having already lived with HIV since 2003, and a bone marrow transplant was his last hope.
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