By: LISA LING and ARASH GHADISHAH, November 5, 2009
ABC Nightline
Performer who passed HIV to co-stars now advocates mandatory condom use in porn. Darren James once led a busy life as a porn star. "Sometimes it'd be 10 women in an orgy scene -- nonstop," he said, talking about his career at its busiest. "And you work from eight in the morning to maybe eight at night. And that's one scene. All these women. Nonstop." Read More...
By: , October 26, 2009
Late night television comic Jimmy Kimmel put a national spotlight on AHF’s campaign to require condoms to be used in all porn production when he used a news clip from the recent protest at the Downtown Los Angeles Marriott Hotel as a springboard for jokes in his monologue on the ABC Network’s ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live! show on Friday, October 23rd. Read More...
By: LA Times Staff, October 26, 2009
Los Angeles Times
The Home staff has culled recommendations from the architects, interior designers and do-it-yourselfers featured in this section to compile this list of resources for anyone planning to remodel, redecorate or otherwise turn his or her home into a work in progress. Read More...
By: Dennis Romero, October 22, 2009
LA Weekly
The locally based AIDS Healthcare and Pink Cross foundations have organized a boycott of Marriott hotels over porn. The protest is not about the Mormon-founded chain's in-room, X-rated offerings. No, that's just fine. The problem, according to the groups, is the hotel company's palette of on-demand smut that features actors who do not use condoms. Read More...
By: Jonathan Lloyd and Patrick Healy, October 22, 2009
NBC Los Angeles
Protesters demanded that Marriott and other hotels stop showing pay-per-view adult movies that include scenes of unprotected sex. And what better way to make the case then to check into a penthouse, shell out $16 and watch some porn -- all in the name of research. Read More...
By: Nora Proops and Courtney McQueen, October 22, 2009
The AIDS Beacon
The HIV vaccine clinical trial, RV144, that was hailed as a success in September is now under scrutiny by other researchers and activists, who say the results may have been due to chance. What has caused this backlash, and why are the results now in question? Read More...
By: Rhett Pardon, October 21, 2009
XBIZ News
A movement to make porn films condom-only is sure to gain further traction on Wednesday as two groups plan to protest the Marriott hotel chain. Read More...
By: Peter Mansell, October 14, 2009
PharmaTimes
The acres of media coverage accorded last month to positive results from a late-stage trial of a combination AIDS vaccine in Thailand were only part of the story, it has emerged. Read More...
By: Matthew Perrone , October 8, 2009
Associated Press
Federal health advisers said Thursday that Pfizer's HIV drug Selzentry should be approved for use by patients who have not already taken other drugs to combat the virus. Read More...
By: Susan Heavey, Editing Bernard Orr and Carol Bishopric, October 8, 2009
Reuters
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Thursday recommended Pfizer Inc (PFE - news - people)'s HIV drug Selzentry be approved for wider use in certain patients with the disease, despite concern from several panel members that they were underwhelmed by the data. Read More...
