The AHF submitted enough signatures May 10 to qualify their latest initiative, the creation of a Los Angeles City Health Department for consideration by voters.
Dr. Jonathan Fielding, who heads Los Angeles County's Department of Public Health, told the Los Angeles Times in a Q&A interview in today’s editions that no more than six health permit applications have been submitted by adult filmmakers since Measure B was enacted by voters.
Public Health Director Dr. Jonathan Fielding told XBIZ that there currently are "fewer than a dozen" local cases of adult entertainment performers infected with syphilis.
The Los Angeles County Public Health Department reports at least five possible syphilis cases among porn performers in the past week, according to a Los Angeles Times report this evening.
A group of public health advocates in Olmstead County has begun a “Clean Hotels” initiative that is requesting area hotels to stop offering in-room pay-per-view porn.
A public health official acknowledged Tuesday evening that the agency was inaccurate when it said the 16 unpublicized AIM Healthcare patients diagnosed HIV-positive were actively working as adult performers at the time of their test.
Dr. Peter Kerndt, director of the sexually transmitted disease program for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, told XBIZ Friday that the department is waiting for more information.
