By Marie Rosenthal, MS
Anyone who is going to receive any cosmetic procedure that involves needles should make sure the procedure is done by a licensed esthetician who practices good infection control. This advice was given at CROI 2024, held in Denver, by an epidemiologist who reported a small cluster of HIV cases traced to vampire facials.
Cosmetic platelet-rich plasma microneedling, or vampire facial, is a procedure of which an esthetician takes a blood sample, centrifuges it to separate its