The San Francisco patientYu first presented the research at last summer's International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science in Mexico City, where Willenberg was referred to as the "San Francisco Patient" because she participated in research in the city.
Last October, she went public with her status in a news report excerpted in the B.A.R."I can only hope and pray that with continued dedication we can figure out how I have dumped the virus into the DNA junkyard," she told advocates on a web forum soon thereafter.