Brittany Malooly reports: A nationwide AIDS healthcare provider and several of its former employees are locked in a legal battle over who took more advantage of the patients. The former employees claim that the AIDS Healthcare Foundation used patients to defraud Medicaid and Medicare, while AHF claims its employees outed confidential patient information to the…
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AHF: Breach of Porn Actors’ Data Reveals Failure of AIM Clinic Testing Model
The following is a press release from AHF: After over 12,000 current and former adult film performers who tested for HIV and other STDs at the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation’s (AIM) HIV Testing Clinic in Sherman Oaks had their privacy breached when their personal data collected from AIM was published illegally on a Wiki-leaks…
Clinic blasts calls for added oversight of porn industry
Molly Hennessy-Fiske reports on the latest developments in a battle between the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and the Adult Industry Medical (AIM) HealthCare Foundation, a Los Angeles area HIV testing clinic funded by and serving the adult film industry. The dispute pits privacy against public health concerns that unprotected sex in the adult porn industry…
California State Agency Released Confidential HIV Information: ACLU and Lambda Legal Demand Explanation
Today Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC), and HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance (HALSA) sent a letter to David Maxwell-Jolly, Director of the California Department of Health Care Services, demanding a full explanation for the unauthorized and illegal disclosures of confidential identifying information of approximately 5,000 HIV-positive Medi-Cal recipients….
Porn, Privacy, HIPAA – Redux
Attorney Michael Fattorosi writes: In February, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation took their fight against AIM and the adult industry to the authorities of the federal Office for Civil Rights, a federal agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that enforces HIPAA, the California Office of Health Information Integrity enforcement Unit and Los…
HHS Dismisses AHF Complaint, Closes AIM Investigation
Oleh writes: The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the main group attempting to force adult performers to use condoms and dental dams (and possibly goggles) in every sex scene, has just been handed a setback by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which has ruled that its Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has…