For the past two years, Paul Edmonds has been part of an extremely exclusive club with a membership that has reached five people. After navigating HIV for more than 30 years, along with a leukemia diagnosis that came in 2018, a life-saving stem cell transplant became available thanks to a donor who had a rare genetic mutation that makes the body resistant to most strains of HIV. In 2021, Edmonds stopped taking his HIV medication, which he had been dependent on for almost half his life. Today, the 67-year-old who lives in Desert Hot Springs, California, is the fifth person in the world in remission of HIV. Edmonds joins four others who have received similar news, including the late Palm Springs resident Timothy Ray Brown (who was known as the "Berlin Patient"), the first person cured of the virus, who died from a reoccurrence of cancer in 2020. Others include "London Patient" Adam Castillejo, "Düsseldorf Patient" Marc Franke, and the "New York Patient," the first woman to be considered cured who has not come forth publicly. Edmonds is the eldest and had HIV the longest. After two years of being anonymously known as the "City of Hope Patient," Edmonds decided to publicly come forward with his story. By sharing his journey, he wants to advocate for and offer hope to those living and aging with HIV that a cure could be possible one day.