Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Berlin patient is a phrase that has been used on two distinct and unrelated occasions to describe a person who has received a functional cure for HIV/AIDS in Berlin, Germany. The first Berlin patient was described in 1998. After receiving an experimental therapy, the patient, who has remained anonymous, has maintained low levels of HIV and has remained off antiretroviral therapy. The world-renowned "second" Berlin patient, Timothy Ray Brown, was first described in 2008 following a poster presented at the CROI 2008 Conference in Boston by Dr. Gero Hütter. He received a stem cell transplant from a donor naturally resistant to HIV and has remained off antiretroviral therapy since the first day of his stem cell transplant. Their stories were chronicled in the 2014 book, Cured: The People who Defeated HIV. The Visconti Cohort, a group of fourteen patients who received early therapy for the virus, are considered functionally cured of HIV, meaning that they still harbor the virus within their bodies but do not need to take antiretroviral therapy. A child known as the Mississippi baby was once considered part of this elite group but has since suffered a relapse. Timothy Ray Brown is the only individual who is considered to have a sterilizing cure, meaning he no longer harbors the HIV virus within his body."@en }
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- Q2435296 abstract "The Berlin patient is a phrase that has been used on two distinct and unrelated occasions to describe a person who has received a functional cure for HIV/AIDS in Berlin, Germany. The first Berlin patient was described in 1998. After receiving an experimental therapy, the patient, who has remained anonymous, has maintained low levels of HIV and has remained off antiretroviral therapy. The world-renowned "second" Berlin patient, Timothy Ray Brown, was first described in 2008 following a poster presented at the CROI 2008 Conference in Boston by Dr. Gero Hütter. He received a stem cell transplant from a donor naturally resistant to HIV and has remained off antiretroviral therapy since the first day of his stem cell transplant. Their stories were chronicled in the 2014 book, Cured: The People who Defeated HIV. The Visconti Cohort, a group of fourteen patients who received early therapy for the virus, are considered functionally cured of HIV, meaning that they still harbor the virus within their bodies but do not need to take antiretroviral therapy. A child known as the Mississippi baby was once considered part of this elite group but has since suffered a relapse. Timothy Ray Brown is the only individual who is considered to have a sterilizing cure, meaning he no longer harbors the HIV virus within his body.".