Brown, 45, who tested positive for HIV in 1995, has appeared in a new interview  with CBS news proclaiming he is cured of HIV, several months after the December study published in scientific journal Blood which said Brown had exhibited “evidence for the cure of HIV infection.” 

“I’m cured of HIV. I had HIV but I don’t anymore,” Brown, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area said in an interview with CBS 5 aired on Monday.

Brown lived in Berlin, Germany in 2007, and had HIV and Leukemia. Scientists gave him a bone marrow stem cell transplant.

Scientists said Brown received stem cells from a donor who was immune to HIV. In fact, about one percent of Caucasians are immune to HIV. Some researchers think the immunity gene goes back to the Great Plague: people who survived the plague passed their immunity down and their heirs have it today.

THE TREATMENT WILL NOT BE FOR EVERYONE - Dr. Paul Volberding, a UCSF AIDS researcher said in the report that although Brown is a “fascinating story it’s not one that can be generalized. Bone marrow transplants carry a “real risk of mortality.” He said an unknown element of Brown’s treatment “allowed the virus apparently to be purged from his body.” -  But this is hop[eful news as we enter into the 30th year of the disease.

WATCH HIS INTERVIEW ONLINE