Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation - Definition and Overview

The Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation is an organization which tests erotic actors for AIDS on a scheduled program. In the 1980s, an outbreak of AIDS led to a number of deaths of erotic actors. This led to the creation of the foundation, which helped set up a system in the U.S. adult film industry where erotic actors are tested for AIDS every 30 days. All sexual contact is logged, and positive test results result in all sexual contacts for the last three to six months being contacted and re-tested.

This resulted in low rates of HIV transmission, and hence low rates of infection among erotic actors: it has been reported that not a single HIV test was positive in the four year period prior to 2004.

The Director of the AIM Healthcare Foundation, Sharon Mitchell, is herself a former erotic actor, who left the industry to qualify in public health counseling and sexology before setting it up in 1998.

In 2004, a male performer, Darren James, tested positive for HIV and there is currently a urgent search for other potentially infected partners to prevent another HIV outbreak. One fellow erotic performer, Lara Roxx, was identified and tested positive for HIV. James apparently had contact with 12 other women since his previous negative HIV test.

See also

• AIDS test
• ELISA
• PCR

External links

• Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation official website (http://www.aim-med.org/)
• Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation FAQs (http://www.aim-med.org/faq.html)