During Tuesday’s Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ meeting, officials from AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) will press the Supervisors regarding the safety of adult film actors working in LA. Since County officials closed the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation (AIM) Clinic, a Sherman Oaks clinic funded by and serving the adult film industry, in mid-December after the State denied AIM a license to operate as a clinic, AHF officials are now concerned about a lack of any oversight of adult film worker safety and about multiple unconfirmed reports that the clinic may still be operating.

“We are grateful that the County closed down AIM in December until the clinic is able to comply with state licensing requirements as a clinic; however, it has been nearly six weeks since the closure and we have concerns regarding the safety of adult film workers, the possible lack of any public health oversight in the industry and multiple unconfirmed reports that AIM may still be operating in some capacity despite a license,” said Whitney Engeran-Cordova, Director of Public Health for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. “The County has a responsibility to protect adult film workers’ safety and we want to remind them of this duty and ask what County officials may be doing on this.”

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is the US’ largest non-profit HIV/AIDS healthcare provider. AHF currently provides medical care and/or services to more than 150,000 individuals in 23 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and the Asia Pacific Region. www.aidshealth.org