A British person who has no HIV

Doctors want more tests for an Englishman who seems to be "out of HIV" without taking medication.

Two Sunday newspapers in the UK said Andrew Stimpson, of Scotland and now living in London, tested positive for HIV in 2002 but the virus was no longer in the body in October 2003.

The Chelsea and Westminster Institute of Health Care, which conducts tests, is asking Mr. Stimpson to have more tests. HIV experts say the case of Stimpson can help people understand more about AIDS.

The Institute of Health Care Chelsea and Westminster said in a statement: " This is a rare and complicated case. When we learned the results of a negative test, we asked Mr. Stimpson to have more tests to find out more. ".

" However, Mr. Stimpson has refused this offer so far. So we have no further comment ."

"The luckiest person"

Meanwhile, Stimpson told the British press: " There are currently 34.9 million people in the world with HIV and I am the only one who can control this virus and expel it from the body ".

" For me, it's incredible - that's the miracle. I think I'm one of the luckiest people in the world ."

Mr. Stimpson said he was depressed and wanted to commit suicide after knowing the positive test result in 2002. Fourteen months later he had a second test and a negative result. He asked for compensation, but the doctors said the trial was not wrong.

Acet's AIDS expert Patrick Dixon says this is the case, " very, very strange ".

He told BBC News 24: " I have had lots of news like this in Africa which has a lot of recent news but it is very difficult to have genuine evidence ."

" We have to be sure one hundred percent that the prototype is right of only one person, there is no confusion in the lab, no confusion in the test. This is the first case with clear evidence. obviously ".

According to the BBC