Porn industry in California suspended by HIV

Main Category: HIV / AIDS
Article Date: 16 Apr 2004 - 0:00 PDT


The porn industry in California, USA, has suspended all shootings because an actor was found to be HIV positive. The porn industry of California will stop filming for a couple of months so that they can test their actors.

An AIM (Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation) spokesperson, Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell said that one of its actors, Darren James, tested positive for HIV. AIM regularly tests it 1,200 actors for HIV. According to Mitchell, 17% of its actors use condoms.

Darren James has been tested every three weeks for the last seven years and has always been clean, said AIM. Dr. Mitchell reckons James may have got the virus while filming in Brazil. During the filming there he did not use a condom.

AIM has to test 14 actresses who had sex with James while filming. They also have to test 35 other people these actresses had sex with as well.

The Californian porn industry makes about four films a day. The actors have been quarantined and AIM has declared a moratorium on filming until they know whom, if anybody, has been infected. They will be quarantined until the beginning of June.

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