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Twenty-two people in the adult film industry have tested positive for HIV in the last five years in Los Angeles County, according to a new report released on Thursday by county health officials, the Los Angeles Times reports. Officials were prompted to release the report after an adult film star last week tested positive for HIV. An outbreak occurred in 2004, in which at least five people tested positive for HIV, and caused the industry to shut down for one month. The cases in 2004 prompted a series of public hearings over the years that sought to require the industry to adopt safer practices, but no legislation was introduced. “The report … is bringing renewed scrutiny to the estimated $12-billion-a-year industry’s long history of resisting regulation and condom use,” according to the Times. Michael Weinstein, president of the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, said, “This industry screams for regulation,” adding that the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health “needs to require that condoms be used in any film.” Sharon Mitchell, co-founder of the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, the clinic which tests people in the adult film industry for sexually transmitted infections, said the clinic promotes HIV prevention and testing, but added “we are not the police department of the industry nor wish to be” (Yoshino/Rong-Gong, Los Angeles Times, 6/12).
This information was reprinted from dailyreports.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily U.S. HIV/AIDS Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at dailyreports.kff.org.
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