ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three women who were diagnosed with HIV after getting "vampire facial" procedures at an unlicensed New Mexico medical spa are believed to be the first documented cases of ...

The CDC report stated that officials identified five HIV patients who were patrons of the spa. The group included four women and one man who was a sexual partner of one of the four women patients ...

The CDC’s investigation states that a woman in her 40s tested positive for HIV while traveling abroad in 2018. The patient reported no injection drug use, recent blood transfusions, or recent ...

Three women were diagnosed ... himself — received HIV infection diagnoses there during 2018-2023. Analysis showed similar HIV strains among all cases, according to the CDC's report last week.

Now, the CDC report provides new detail about the affected clients and the spa's practices. The first case was a middle-aged woman who tested positive for HIV in 2018, the CDC said. She had no ...

The findings, described in seven articles in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, come from the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Among Transgender Women project (NHBS-Trans). More than ...

In the summer of 2018, a woman in her 40s was told ... and summer 2018 resulted in HIV-1 transmission to these three patients,” the agency wrote. The CDC noted that the procedures were performed ...

But their white counterparts saw a far larger decrease of 45%, CDC data shows ... half – 52% – of total new HIV infections were in the South. One in 10 women are unaware they have HIV ...

Cisgender Black women are disproportionately ... people make up “37% of new HIV infections, even though they make up 12% of the population,” according to the CDC. RELATED CONTENT: HealthyMD ...

Transgender women, in particular ... data in relation to HIV prevention and risk for the first time. An analysis of the survey results, published Tuesday in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality ...