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By: Rong-Gong Lin II and Kimi Yoshino, June 17, 2009
Los Angeles Times
L.A. County and California health officials say they will look into the case. It's the first confirmed case in the Southern California industry since 2004, when production was closed for four weeks. Read More...
By: Kimi Yoshino, June 17, 2009
Los Angeles Times
L.A. County health officials say at least 16 performers have been infected in addition to one reported this week. That brings the number of HIV cases in porn performers to 22 in the last five years. Read More...
By: Gardiner Harris, June 17, 2009
New York Times
Health officials in Los Angeles said Friday that 22 actors in adult sex movies had contracted H.I.V. since 2004, when a previous outbreak led to efforts to protect pornography industry employees. The officials accused an industry-supported health clinic of failing to cooperate with state investigations and of failing to protect not only industry workers but their sexual partners as well. Read More...
By: Amber Sandoval-Griffin, June 16, 2009
The Times-Picayune
On the side of a white clinic on wheels, Magic Johnson's smiling face stood 8 feet high in the Algiers Family Health Center parking lot -- inviting passers-by to drop in and get tested for HIV. Read More...
By: , June 15, 2009
Kaiser Daily U.S. HIV/AIDS Report
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is conducting a three-week tour featuring a mobile testing unit named for former National Basketball Association player Earvin "Magic" Johnson that provides free HIV testing to local residents, WDSU.com reports. Read More...
By: Michael Weinstein, June 14, 2009
Frontiers IN L.A.
Ten years ago my picture was wheat-pasted across West Hollywood with the words “condom Nazi” scrawled across it. Needless to say, as my Jewish and gay brethren had suffered the most at the hands of Hitler, I was deeply offended. The poster in question arose from AHF sponsoring an initiative to require bars in WeHo—both gay and straight—to have condoms available. Read More...
By: Beth Parker, June 10, 2009
Fox News DC
It's a national issue, but the campaign's focused here in Obama's new backyard. Those who created it acknowledge the president has a lot on his plate, but they say he should make AIDS a priority. Read More...
By: Matthew Bigg, May 18, 2009
Reuters
President Barack Obama on Friday named a new director for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tapping a health activist who pushed for expanding AIDS testing and banning smoking in restaurants. Read More...
By: Peter Staley, May 5, 2009
Poz
Last week, our nation's largest AIDS organization, the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, launched a cable TV and Internet ad challenging President Obama's silence on AIDS during his first 100 days in office. I've had my disagreements with AHF in the past, especially when it launched misleading treatment-related advocacy campaigns, but this time AHF got it right. Read More...
By: Michael Weinstein, May 4, 2009
Frontiers IN L.A.
People concerned about AIDS in the U.S. have been waiting a long time for presidential leadership. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like we are going to get it anytime soon. Read More...
