AVN’s Mark Kernes wrote a piece about the latest flap between AIDS Healthcare Foundation and AIM, the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation. Last week AHF put out a press release to say that the Feds, in the person of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in San Francisco, were going to investigate AIM for alleged breaches of privacy in its testing procedures.

The gist of that Kernes article is this:

. AHF is claiming that AIM’s standard release, signed by adult performers when being tested at AIM, which allows AIM to release the performer’s STD information to adult producers who may wish to hire that performer for a movie or web production, is legally flawed.

. AIM owner Dr. Sharon Mitchell is claiming the release AHF cited in its letter was several generations removed from the release AIM currently uses, and that AIM is in full compliance with the law.

. None of AHF’s claims about the AIM Authorization is true.

. Attorney Jeffrey Douglas says that “a number of experts in federal privacy law have vetted all of AIM’s procedures, and we are extremely confident that AIM complies with or exceeds all federal and state HIPAA medical privacy standards.”

. The latest maneuver by AHF is totally self-serving because it wants to corner the STD testing “market” of the adult entertainment industry for itself.