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Brown was known as the "Berlin patient" because he was living in the German city when he received a treatment that apparently cured him.

Adam Castillejo, known around the world as the "London Patient," was declared the second person to have been cured of HIV in March 2019.

The National AIDS Memorial Grove has memorialized Timothy Ray Brown, who was the first person cured of AIDS, with a boulder at the contemplative space in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

Memorial for Timothy Brown, first person cured of HIV, planned in Palm Springs Timothy Ray Brown, the first known person to be cured of HIV, died of cancer in his Palm Springs home on Sept. 29, 2020. He was 54 years old. On Friday, he was memorialized in Palm Springs.  Brown learned he had HIV in the 1990s while working in Berlin, Germany. He received a transplant related to his leukemia in 2007 — the cancer that would return years later — leading to his death. It was while he was being treated for that cancer in Berlin that his HIV infection was cured. He became known as "the Ber...

Frameline, which produces the LGBTQ film festival in San Francisco, has announced that after an extensive search, it has hired a queer Black woman as its director of programming. Allegra Madsen joins the nonprofit organization following success at San Francisco's Bayview Opera House, a news release stated. In the role, Madsen, 41, will oversee the curatorial vision and execution of Frameline's signature International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, which celebrates its 45th anniversary this year. She will also direct the implementation and programming of all non-festival programs and projects. "I am th...