By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times from the latimes.com December 8, 2010 The adult film performer who tested HIV-positive at a San Fernando Valley clinic this fall spoke out for the first time Tuesday, calling for mandatory condom use in porn productions, improved testing for sexually transmitted disease and follow-up care for fellow performers….
NL- Great Story from Xbiz.com that lotsa people are talking about. THis is the same company who put a HIV+ performer under contract and then sent out a press release about it. I wonder why OSHA would look into them? Dumbasses, in so many ways…. Bareback Studio Treasure Island Fined Over Sex Scenes By…
From FSC http://fscblogger.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/hiv-infection-risk-lowered-by-pill/ HIV Infection Risk Lowered by Pill Researchers announced today that an antirtroviral medication called Truvada, when taken daily, has been shown to reduce the incidence of HIV infection by 73%, though the NY Times stated that the pill is more than 90% effective. Funding for the research was provided by the Bill…
WHY I TAKE THIS SO PERSONALLY In my first article I mentioned that I take this issue of performer health very personally, and I would like to take this opportunity to explain this in further detail. Many years before I had ever heard of AIM Healthcare I was working for Physicians Clinical Laboratory, in…
NL- Forgot to run this thru spell check sorry Tim, fixed) Quite an interesting little meeting. In my opinion, the most important part of the discussion was about the gay vs. straight industry. There was the usual rhetoric about testing vs. condoms. I mentioned the gay company that recently signed an HIV+ performer to an…
OP/ED by Tim Tritch One of the main criticisms of the industry’s testing program is that performers pay all the costs, or the large majority of the costs. OSHA, AHF, and County Health point this out every chance they get, along with the privacy issues of the AIM system. And these are legitimate points. Producers…
I appreciate you all keeping the debate on HIV/Aids and it’s realities (and falsehoods) on the two threads that it is currently being discussed on. Because we talk about the subject of HIV quite often I don’t want the same arguments to go on all over this board. So please keep the discussion just on…
ONE SIMPLE SOLUTION op/ed by Tim Tritch I would like to offer this one simple solution to this particular problem that the industry is facing today. Cal-OSHA has been trying to get access to AIM test results for years. They have been denied by the courts, but they still keep coming back. For some reason…
16 UNPUBLICIZED CASES OP/ED by Tim Tritch To whom it may concern, My name is Tim Tritch. For six years I was employed by Heathline Clinical Laboratories, and Westcliff Clinical Labs as the Senior Account Representative in charge of the AIM Healthcare account. As part of my job duties I spent hundreds of hours…
Op/ed by The Colonel I just checked in, and I have to admit I am disappointed and shocked by this article posted on LukeIsBack, a web site that both the adult industry workers and fans read on a daily basis. If this conspiracy theory was posted on fringe blogs that claim the world is being…
