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The AHF has also pushed to have adult performers categorised as "employees" rather than independent contractors, so that we fall under the jurisdiction of State employee safeguard Cal/OSHA and face the same "barrier protection" requirements as medical professionals. The effect that's had and is still having is that it's decentralised healthcare in the industry and pushed it underground. The AHF championed this current condom law by paying people for signatures to get it on the ballot and pushing the city council to just pass a law rather than spend four million dollars creating a ballot initiative. This is the most advanced HIV test out there and it is affordable and available to the general public. And we get our results within 24 hours of testing. Now, most porn veterans like myself, Belladonna and others get RNA HIV tests, which detects HIV within two days of exposure. If the straight industry adopted these same standards, performers would be less safe because condoms break. The gay porn industry is largely condom-only but doesn't require testing. Kimberly as Agent Scully in The Sex Files This means that in the case of an emergency like an HIV outbreak, it would be harder to quarantine and track performers, basically making us less safe. Now, there are multiple testing facilities and draw stations with no central database. That is, until AHF (AIDS Healthcare Foundation) pushed the Public Health Dept to investigate AIM Healthcare and, due to legal expenses and harassment lawsuits, AIM was forced to close their doors in 2010. The system we had in place with AIM Healthcare wasn't perfect, but we did have a central testing facility with one database. This is further evidence that testing has worked in keeping the industry HIV-free. AIM Healthcare Foundation reported that these cases were actually members of the general public or people applying to work in the adult film industry that had not yet actually worked in films due to their initial test being positive. In 2009, the LA Public Health department and the LA Times claimed that there were 16 unreported cases of HIV among adult film actors.
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Statistically speaking, there are hundreds of more "at risk" communities in the world, and even in LA itself. There is probably not a more frequently tested group of people on the planet than adult performers in Los Angeles. This is not a law, it's a universally agreed upon and adhered to industry standard.
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We do not work without a current, clean test. That is largely because of our strict 28-day testing rule.
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Since then, the porn industry has had no outbreaks in eight years. Which means, I worked with someone who worked with one of the women Darren James worked with. I was personally fourth generation exposure. The adult industry, lead by AIM Healthcare, had an industry-wide 60-day long moratorium and quarantine of every performer who had worked with Darren James or any of the female performers who contracted HIV from him. Porn hasn't had an HIV outbreak since 2004, when Darren James contracted HIV after shooting outside of the US.