Category: HIV

New HIV Cases Linked to Unusual Spa Treatment

The New Mexico Department of Health (DOH) warned people who received “vampire facials” from a now-out-of-business spa to get tested after an HIV case was confirmed in connection to the business. Former clients of VIP Beauty Salon and Spa, located in Albuquerque, may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C if they received…


CDC Says Cases of Deadly Bacterial Illness Among Patients With HIV Rose in 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) saw a rise in rare but serious meningococcal infections among patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 2022, according to preliminary data published on June 15. A total of 29 meningococcal disease cases in the United States were reported among persons with HIV in 2022, accounting for approximately 9.8 percent…


Study Finds Severe Monkeypox Disease Mostly in Men With Advanced HIV

An especially severe form of monkeypox has been found by researchers to have a higher risk of severe complications and death among men with advanced HIV or AIDS, according to a study published in The Lancet. According to the research team, monkeypox, or mpox, has had a considerable impact on men who have HIV and…


Tennessee to Begin Rejecting Most Federal Funding for HIV Programs

Tennessee will begin rejecting federal funding for HIV programs at the end of May, according to a letter sent to grantees from the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) and provided to The Epoch Times from TDH Communications Officer Dean Flener. The letter was sent earlier this month to providers regarding the federal pass-through funding from…


HIV Vaccine Trial Halted Over Shot’s Inability to Prevent Infection

Companies have halted an advanced trial of an HIV vaccine because the shot was found to not prevent infection. Results from the stage 3 trial led to the determination that the vaccine “was not effective in preventing HIV infection compared to placebo among study participants,” Johnson & Johnson and its partners said in a statement. The…


Long-Term Consumption of Korean Red Ginseng Slows Progression of HIV: Study

A recent South Korean medical study shows that long-term consumption of Korean red ginseng can slow down the rate that HIV reaches more advanced stages. The study was conducted by a research team led by Professor Cho Young-gul from the Microbiology Department of the University of Ulsan’s Asan Medical Center in Seoul. It followed 146…


Why Are COVID Patients Treated With an HIV Pill?

Several scenarios are now converging to create the suspicion this was the case – including conditional approval for an HIV pill by Chinese officials, AIDS-like immunodepression from the jab and an Indian paper that was quickly retracted. STORY AT-A-GLANCE July 25, 2022, Chinese officials granted conditional approval to Azvudine, an HIV drug, to be used…


Mushroom Soup Immunity, Iron, and Vitamin D (Recipe)

Mushrooms are strange creatures. Neither plant nor animal, these fungal fruits are in a class all their own. Some species are psychotropic. Others are deadly. For many ancient cultures, even perfectly edible mushrooms were suspect. The Chinese, however, embraced mushrooms early on. One of the most important specimens in Chinese culture is shiitake, which has been a…


HHS Gives Further $115 Million to Reduce HIV Infections in US

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gave out a further $115 million in funding on Thursday as part of the Biden administration’s plan to reduce the number of new HIV infections in the United States by at least 90 percent by 2030. Nearly $103 million was given to 39 metropolitan areas and…


J&J Sues to Block Sales of ‘Dangerous’ Counterfeit HIV Drugs

Johnson & Johnson has filed a lawsuit against drug distributors and a pharmacy seeking to stop the sale of counterfeit versions of its HIV drugs, months after a similar case brought by Gilead Sciences Inc. In a complaint filed on April 7 and made public on Tuesday, J&J said it had learned of widespread counterfeiting…