We're actually both right: there are two patients referred to as "The Berlin patient." The first one is a man who was given an unusual ART regimen and has been

We're actually both right: there are two patients referred to as "The Berlin patient." The first one is a man who was given an unusual ART regimen and has been able to stay off of it for an indefinite time, with low circulating levels of HIV. But this isn't the person that most physicians think of when we talk about the Berlin patient. Rather, we're thinking of the man who had a bone marrow transplant and has been truly cured.