I’VE BEEN CURED OF HIV
Mar 20, 2020
4 minutes
COMPILED BY SANDY COOK
THE NEW YORK TIMES/GREATSTOCK, GALLO IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES
HE’S tall and handsome and radiates health and vitality, a young man with immaculate dress sense and a sizeable chunk of his life ahead of him.
Yet the slick exterior belies a gruelling journey that’s taken him to the bowels of hell and back again.
It’s a journey that made world headlines last year when it emerged he was only the second person to be cured of HIV infection – yet although he became an instant medical sensation and had media houses the world over clamouring for his story, his identity remained a secret.
Instead, he was simply known as “the London Patient” and it was surreal, he says. “I was watching
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