He was not cured by the HIV drugs, however, but by a stem-cell treatment he received for a cancer he also had, The Lancet HIV journal reports.
The donors of those stem cells have an uncommon gene that gives them, and now Mr Castillejo, protection against HIV.
In 2011, Timothy Brown, the "Berlin Patient" became the first person reported as cured of HIV, three and half years after having similar treatment.
What is the treatment?
Stem-cell transplants appear to stop the virus being able to replicate inside the body by replacing the patient's own immune cells with donor ones that resist HIV infection.
Adam Castillejo - the now 40-year-old "London Patient" who has decided to go public with his identity - has no detectable active HIV infection in his blood, semen or tissues, his doctors say. It is now a year after they first announced he was clear of the virus and he still remains free of HIV.
Lead researcher Prof Ravindra Kumar Gupta, from the University of Cambridge, told BBC News:
"This represents HIV cure with almost certainty. We have now had two and a half years with anti-retroviral-free remission. Our findings show that the success of stem-cell transplantation as a cure for HIV, first reported nine years ago in the Berlin Patient, can be replicated."But it will not be a treatment for the millions of people around the world living with HIV. The aggressive therapy was primarily used to treat the patients' cancers, not their HIV.
And current HIV drugs remain very effective, meaning people with the virus can live long and healthy lives.
Prof Gupta said:
"It is important to note that this curative treatment is high-risk and only used as a last resort for patients with HIV who also have life-threatening haematological malignancies.But it might offer hope of finding a cure, in the future, using gene therapy.
"Therefore, this is not a treatment that would be offered widely to patients with HIV who are on successful anti-retroviral treatment."
How does it work?
CCR5 is the most commonly used receptor by HIV-1 - the virus strain of HIV that dominates around the world - to enter cells. But a very small number of people who are resistant to HIV have two mutated copies of the CCR5 receptor. This means the virus cannot penetrate cells in the body it normally infects.
Researchers say it may be possible to use gene therapy to target the CCR5 receptor in people with HIV. It is the same receptor the now jailed Chinese scientist He Jiankui worked on when he created the world's first gene-edited babies.
Is it a permanent cure?
The tests suggest 99% of Mr Castillejo's immune cells have been replaced by donor ones. But he still has remnants of the virus in his body, as does Mr Brown. And it is impossible to say with absolute certainty his HIV will never come back.
Mr Castillejo told the New York Times:
"This is a unique position to be in, a unique and very humbling position. I want to be an ambassador of hope. I don't want people to think, 'Oh, you've been chosen.' No, it just happened. I was in the right place, probably at the right time, when it happened."Prof Sharon Lewin, from the University of Melbourne, Australia, said:
"Given the large number of cells sampled here and the absence of any intact virus, is the London Patient truly cured?
"The additional data provided in this follow-up case report is certainly encouraging but unfortunately, in the end, only time will tell."
Dr. Nancy Banks, author of AIDs, Opium, Diamonds and Empire, has spoken about the scientific FRAUD behind the idea that HIV causes AIDS (you can listen to her here: [Link]
She says the first group of gay men who came down with AIDs did so because they blew out their own immune systems because of their extremely unhealthy lifestyle and high risk behaviors. She says this group of patients were engaging in high risk sexual behavior, including countless sex partners, chronic antibiotic use for repeated STDs, unhealthy eating habits, partying lifestyle, staying up late, drinking, and taking drugs, especially highly dangerous drugs called “poppers.” She says that because of their lifestyle and behaviors, they blew out their own immune systems. But big pharma does NOT make money off of focusing on the health of people—they make money off of the germ model, by saying that all sickness is due to a mysterious pathogen, especially a virus, which they can make money off of through vaccines and dangerous drugs. Most of those people who died from being HIV positive died because they were taking the extremely toxic drug known as AZT. (So all those people in Africa who died from HIV, actually died from a depopulation agenda under the cover of medical treatment via AZT for HIV).
There is much more about this here:
HIV-AIDS RACKET (AIDS INC) [Link]
''No HIV virus has ever been proven to exist.... AIDS is not a new disease, but a collection of old diseases renamed, and that the real threat to the public's health are the worthless HIV tests and toxic HIV/AIDS drugs.''-----Curtis Cost
Depopulation and HIV by Jon Rappoport [Link]
"My book instead proved that HIV - wherever it came from - was a harmless retrovirus that was being used as a cover story to explain/conceal an emerging depopulation operation in the Third World. HIV was also a cover for other agendas outside the Third World. As long as AIDS is the target of WHO &UN "humanitarian" efforts, the actual causes - which are easily reversible - of death in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are allowed to remain and fester and expand….Thabo Mbeki, the president of South Africa, has been a major thorn in the side of the depopulationists. He knows that HIV does not cause human disease. He knows that the front-line drugs for AIDS, especially AZT, attack the bone marrow, where certain cells of the immune system are manufactured. Thus CREATING what is called AIDS through pharmaceutical means. In particular, giving AZT to pregnant mothers is a major goal of the depopulation effort…
THE GREAT HIV / AIDS HOAX [Link]
IS THE AIDS VIRUS A SCIENCE FICTION? IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, NOT HIV, MAY BE THE CAUSE OF AIDS By Peter H. Duesberg & Bryan J. Ellison [Link]
House of Numbers [Link]
Nobel Prize Winner Challenges The Myths About Aids [Link]
The Greatest Medical Fraud in History - The Pain, Profit and Politics of AIDS- Gary Null [Link]
Here's Dr. Willmer trying to expose the scientific and medical fraud that HIV causes AIDS:
Dr Robert Willner Injects "HIV" into himself on TV [Link]
He knew HIV was a harmless retrovirus, so to prove the point, he injected himself with an HIV contaminated needle (from a HIV+ hemophiliac). "When asked why he would put his life on the line to make a point, Dr. Willner replied: 'I do this to put a stop to the greatest murderous fraud in medical history. By injecting myself with HIV positive blood, I am proving the point as Dr. Walter Reed did to prove the truth about yellow fever. In this way it is my hope to expose the truth about HIV in the interest of all mankind.' He tested negative multiple times. He died of a Heart attack 4 months later 15th April 1995"--IMO TPTB probably gave him that heart attack b/c they didn't want him to continue to live and prove that HIV is a harmless retrovirus. [Link] [Link] His book: [Link]
This scientist, Dr. Stephan Lanka, suggests that viruses are a hoax: [Link]
“So for a long time I studied virology, from the end to the beginning, from the beginning to the end, to be absolutely sure that there was no such thing as HIV. And it was easy for me to be sure about this because I realized that the whole group of viruses to which HIV is said to belong, the retroviruses – as well as other viruses which are claimed to be very dangerous – in fact do not exist at all.” (Stefan Lanka interviewed by Mark Gabrish Conlan, Zenger’s Magazine, San Diego -October 1998).”
Janine Roberts' book Fear of the Invisible looks at the scientific fraud in virus research, including HIV, Polio, and viruses in general
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"We have been taught to greatly fear viruses, yet scientists have long known that these are fundamental parts of life, made by the millions by all healthy cells...Cells naturally produce viral-like particles without being invaded, both when healthy and sick...It now seems that we may have misconceived the virus; that most of them could well be simply inert messages in envelopes carried from cell to cell...We need to know if a poisoned cell may produce unhealthy messengers or viruses...Research indicates that cellular stress, illness or malnourishment often precedes the production of viruses rather than the reverse.... As we have seen, no virus has ever been isolated directly from a sick patient’s cells. Since ‘scientists have long known that the guaranteed way to make cells produce viruses in the laboratory, including flu and measles virus, is not primarily by getting them infected, but by exposing them to stress and toxins’