Although, it is pleasant to hear that Timothy Ray Brown is the first person in the world to be cured of AIDS, I have to say that there might be a woman who has been the first person to be cured of AIDS. In order to protect her identity I will not reveal her name but she is someone from the Dominican Republic who was treated for HIV with an experimental UV light treatment. She started out with 34, 552 RNA copies/ml before treatment and her physical condition was unfortunate. She was weak, thin, and couldn’t walk well. Immediately after 8 treatments her viral load went up to 156,818 RNA copies/ml. This was explained by a physician as it being the dead virus (or fragments of) in her blood that was causing the elevated reading. 4 years later she was tested again and she had not had any further treatments of any kind. Her viral load had been reduced in that period of time to 170 RNA copies/ml. The patient was tested again in 2009 and she tested undetectable which is amazing because it may indicate that this woman has the HIV antibody in her system. The patient agreed to get tested again in June of 2012and her viral load results were 0.039. There might even be more people who have been cured from AIDS in Africa before Mr. Brown. This is just some information I wanted you and the rest of the world to know. If you were to talk to various doctors around the world like we have this woman’s immune system could contain the antibody for every AIDS victim in the world. There is a large possibility where this is where it sits.
Patient: E.M.S. Disease HIV 1st viral load/date 34552 RNA copies/mL (2/9/05) Number of treatments 8 2nd viral load/date 156818 RNA copies/mL (3/29/05) No treatments 3d viral load/date 170 RNA copies/mL (8/17/09)

No treatments

4th viral load/ date
HIV-1 RNA Not Detected
(4/25/11)

5th viral load/date
0.039 RNA copies/mL
(6/18/2012)