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发帖数: 901 | 1 LOS ANGELES (AP) — An adult film performer has tested positive for HIV,
causing porn producers to shut down shoots in Southern California as the
diagnosis is confirmed through re-testing, according to an industry group.
Free Speech Coalition executive director Diane Duke told The Los Angeles
Times http://lat.ms/mX0vin on Monday that her group became aware of the HIV case Saturday.
A series of tests were being conducted on the performer to confirm the case
before anyone the performer might have spread the illness to will be
notified to get tested, Duke told The Associated Press.
She didn't know how long that would take.
Duke declined to release the performer's name, age or gender, citing the
person's federal right to medical privacy. She also declined to say how her
group learned of the case.
The case was found in an out-of-state clinic that doesn't report to
California health officials, said Duke.
If the initial case is confirmed, the group will ask two generations of the
person's sexual partners to get tested, meaning those who had sex with the
performer and the sexual partners of those who had sex with the performer.
The voluntary industry shutdown affects porn producers in the San Fernando
Valley, the heart of the multi-billion dollar American porn industry, and
includes Hustler and Evil Angel's productions.
The porn industry was shut down similarly in late 2010, after porn actor
Derrick Burts was diagnosed HIV positive.
Burts has since gone on to advocate for the mandatory use of condoms in porn
with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
The health advocacy group and state workplace safety officials say state law
mandates porn performers to use condoms to protect themselves under the
same set of rules that require nurses to wear gloves in hospitals when
dealing with bodily fluids.
Cal/OSHA is working to clarify the regulation to make it more specific to
porn.
Earlier this month, the health advocacy group announced that it will gather
41,138 petition signatures to get the issue of condoms in porn on the June
2012 ballot. |
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