Press Teleconf TODAY: AHF Takes Aim at Porn Clinic, LA County After Performer Tests HIV+.

Business Wire

October 12, 2010

     Press Teleconference at 4:00 PM TODAY -- AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein Says, "How many more people have to be infected with HIV before LA County steps in to do its job?"
    
     LOS ANGELES -- AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) will host a press teleconference today at 4:00 PM to denounce the adult film industry, the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation (AIM) and Los Angeles County after it was reported in the Los Angeles Times today that an adult-industry performer has tested positive for HIV and an industry quarantine has been instituted. AHF has been leading efforts to improve industry safety by advocating for the enforcement of condom-use on all adult film sets.
    
      "That a performer tested positive for HIV today -- and that more may be infected -- was totally preventable," said Michael Weinstein, President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation. "It is also living proof that testing is not adequate protection against HIV/AIDS and other sexually-transmitted diseases among porn performers. How many more people have to be infected with HIV before Los Angeles County steps in to do its job and protect performers' and the public's health and AIM stops being a 'fig leaf' for the industry?"

WHAT:		Press Teleconference
WHEN:		TODAY, Tuesday, October 12th
		4:00 PM Pacific
HOW:		Teleconference number: 1-877-411-9748
		Access Code: 7931503
WHO:		Michael Weinstein, President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation
		Brian Chase, Assistant General Counsel, AIDS Healthcare Foundation
CONTACT:		Lori Yeghiayan, 323-377-4312, loriy@aidshealth.org