This is the headline in a recent press release (April 9, 2020) from the CDC concerning the continuing increase in new (acute) hepatitis C (HCV) infections in the United States. With COVID-19 at the forefront of the health news, it is important to continue our focus on...
How has COVID-19 affected Samaritan Ministry? We started off with a normal week at the beginning of March. We had our Support Group meeting and held events as part of National Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS. After that, things shut down. We have been...
You may have seen ads recently about class action lawsuits against Gilead, the manufacturer of the HIV medication Truvada. These ads are causing unnecessary confusion and alarm. Click below to read an article from Positively Aware about this issue:...
Thank you to Nurturing Faith Journal for featuring an article entitled “Persistent Compassion” about Samaritan Ministry and its founder and director, Wayne Smith. Wayne was the recipient of the 19th Annual Judson-Rice Award earlier this year. Click here to...
Our friends at POZ.com have published extensively on the U=U concept and we want to share that information here. This is one of the best and most concise pieces on U=U that we have seen. Share it. 1. Undetectable Equals Untransmittable The fact that people living with...
A man in London has become only the second person to achieve remission from HIV infection, researchers from the UK reported Tuesday. The therapy responsible has worked on only one other person who is considered to be “cured” of HIV: Timothy Ray Brown, who still does...
We follow the ever changing road to a cure for HIV, and want you to be updated, too. Funding for “Cure Research” has increased as more and more energy seems to coalesce around the reality controlling HIV and ending the epidemic. Some are hopeful that a...
OUR FRIEND, JIMMY ALLEN The world lost a faith leader in January, and Samaritan Ministry lost a friend. Dr. Jimmy Allen, was a past leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, and a founding inspiration for both the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (a Samaritan Ministry...
Locally and Nationally, the Opioid Crisis has made headlines. Overdose deaths are on the increase and statistics are sobering. More than 72,000 Americans died from drug overdose in 2017, including illicit drugs and prescription opioids—a 2-fold increase in a decade....
Thank you to the Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship for highlighting the work of Samaritan Ministry as part of the Volunteer State Mission Offering. Check out this video:
