July 6, 2010
By: Fred Tasker
The adult films, made in Miami-Dade County, have names like South Beach Cruisin', and Barely Legal: Miami Girls. In them, one actor wears nothing but roller skates. Others wear nothing at all.
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July 6, 2010
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), "[t]he largest global AIDS organization[,] accused the Obama administration and Congress on Friday of falling short on promised funding and oversight in the worldwide fight against the epidemic," The Hills "Healthwatch" blog reports.
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July 2, 2010
By: Staff Reporter
HIV activists are putting pressure on the U.S. government to provide more and better funding in the global fight against HIV/AIDS.
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July 1, 2010
Five AIDS treatment clients and medical care providers from Uganda are visiting Washington, DC for a series of over 50 meetings this week on Capitol Hill with Senate and Congressional leaders to lobby Congress to honor the US’ landmark commitment to PEPFAR (the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), the successful US global AIDS program.
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June 30, 2010
By: Henry Zakumumpa
Thousands of patients who are becoming clinically eligible for anti-retroviral treatment (ART) in Uganda risk early death unless an informal ban on enrollment of new patients by the ART treatment centres countrywide is lifted.
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June 30, 2010
As health departments, community organizations and AIDS advocates around the country observe National HIV Testing Day today, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) criticized the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) for its failure to implement its own landmark 2006 change it its official HIV testing guidelines that included the recommendation for routine testing of all individuals ages 13-64 for HIV as they visit or encounter routine healthcare settings.
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June 30, 2010
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, is deflating a trial balloon floated by some Obama Administration officials that suggests a mere $30 million in additional funding could adequately help close a gaping $126 million hole in funding for the nation’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), the federal and state funded, state run network of assistance programs that supply lifesaving AIDS drugs to low-income Americans in need.
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June 30, 2010
By: Dennis Romero
Following a meeting of a California Occupational Safety and Health (Cal-OSHA) advisory panel on the issue of whether the state should enforce the usage of condoms in the San Fernando Valley-based porn industry, the Aids Healthcare Foundation says Cal-OSHA official indicated the law probably covers such a mandate.
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June 30, 2010
California’s of Department Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) convened its first meeting of an Advisory Panel to explore strengthening adult film worker safety regulations in California today in downtown Los Angeles. In March, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board voted unanimously to convene the Advisory Panel in order to take public comment from health advocates, industry officials and the general public on whether—and how—to amend state health statutes to better protect adult film workers.
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June 29, 2010
By: Mark Kernes
Those who showed up at the Cal/OSHA Advisory Meeting on Bloodborne Pathogens in the Adult Film Industry today expecting a discussion of whether condoms should be mandated in adult movies were in for a surprise: According to both Cal/OSHA inspector Deborah Gold and agency attorney Amy Martin, condoms are already required for sex scenes, and any production that doesn't use them is breaking the law.
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