around 2013—are back in the news for a terrifying reason.In a on April 26, it was revealed that multiple people may have been infected with HIV after undergoing the procedure at a wellness spa in New Mexico. According to the report, a woman with “no known HIV risk factors” was diagnosed with HIV in 2018 after “exposure to needles from cosmetic platelet-rich plasma microneedling facials.”The owner of the spa, which closed in the fall of 2018, did not have the appropriate licenses to practice the procedure, which involves drawing blood from an individual, which is then spun in a centrifuge to separate the red blood cells from the platelet-rich plasma (PRP).
