Nutra Pharma Corp., a biopharmaceutical and diagnostics company specializing in the acquisition, licensing and commercialization of pharmaceutical products and technologies for the management of neurological disorders, cancer, autoimmune and infectious diseases announced today that it is working with the Business Development Group of Xinhua Finance, China's premier financial services and media company.

The agreement with Xinhua, which has been outlined in the Company's 8-K filing with the SEC, provides that Xinhua Finance will aid Nutra Pharma to:

-- meet potential strategic and operational partners, as well as suppliers, manufacturers, customers, and other partners in The People's Republic of China and elsewhere in Asia; and

-- obtain strategic counsel for advancing its business objectives in China and elsewhere in Asia. 

Two of Nutra Pharma's holdings, ReceptoPharm, Inc. and NanoLogix, Inc., are developing technologies that could potentially be used in China. These companies have already expressed interest in finding Chinese partners.

ReceptoPharm, Inc. is conducting basic drug discovery, research and clinical development for the indications of its therapies that include Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and HIV/AIDS. Their current drugs are derived by modifying the venom and toxin of snakes, some of which are indigenous to China, for the potential use as therapy for various autoimmune and neurological diseases and disorders. ReceptoPharm is preparing for Phase IIb/IIIa clinical studies for Adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN) as well as Phase IIa studies for MS and HIV/AIDS. "We are excited to be working with Xinhua Finance in our efforts to move into the China marketplace," remarked Rik J. Deitsch, Nutra Pharma's CEO. "There are several immediate opportunities for the Company in potential partnerships and licensing as well as shared research in areas that concern the Chinese. ReceptoPharm's HIV/AIDS therapy may be of particular interest to these potential Chinese partners," he added.

The Chinese government recently announced that it has 840,000 HIV/AIDS cases among its population of 1.3 billion people, but experts say at least one million rural inhabitants were infected from contaminated needles when donating blood in the central province of Henan alone. "If the preventive measures are slack, the number of people infected by HIV could reach 10 million by 2010," stated Dai Zhicheng, director of the Health Ministry's Committee of AIDS Experts (Xinhua Daily Telegraph). 

NanoLogix, Inc., another holding of Nutra Pharma, is engaged in the research and development of diagnostic test kits to be used for the rapid identification of mycobacterium based infectious human diseases such as Tuberculosis (TB) and Mycobacterium Avium-Intracellulare (MAI). NanoLogix management believes that the benefits of their test kits in identifying TB and MAI include: -- identify active disease states relatively quickly, -- relatively low cost, -- easily utilized by minimally trained staff, -- capable of being stored at ambient temperatures, -- has a long shelf life, -- is appropriate for isolation and antibiotic sensitivity testing of pathogens. "

The therapeutic and diagnostic platforms that are being developed by ReceptoPharm and NanoLogix have the potential to allow people in China to live longer and healthier lives," said Mr. Deitsch. "We are excited to be working with Xinhua Finance to create critical strategic relationships in China and Asia that may allow us to make inroads that would otherwise be difficult to make as a non-Chinese company."