The AIM Healthcare Foundation has announced that a large percentage of the adult performers that have been quarantined because of potential exposure to the HIV virus have been cleared to return to work, almost a month earlier than expected.
AIM has been unable to finish updating the list on their Website, but AVN.com was told to expect nearly half of the performers to be clear, most of whom have tested three times in the last 45 days.
According to Sharon Mitchell, PhD, the executive director of AIM, some of performers cleared are: Brian Surewood, Sledge Hammer, Jim Beam, John Strong, Tony Tedesci, Mark Anthony, Mark Last, Jason Zupalo, Juan Luna, LT Turner, Tony Sexton, Dominico, Jean val Jean, Alberto Rey, Alex Sanders, T.T. Boy, Summer Lynn, Venus,Kelly Starr, Van Dalia and Cindy Crawford.
The decision to clear some performers earlier than originally expected came after Mitchell and Dr. Colin Hamblin, the medical director for AIM, met with microbiology specialists from the laboratory that conducts testing for AIM. the microbiologists confirmed that some of the quarantined performers had undergone sufficient testing over the last 30 days to be considered be lifted from the quarantine.
"It is our view that with the definitive testing we have done in the last 30 days by PCR/DNA, PCR/RNA Quant and Logarithmic, Western Blot, P24 antigen, and the ELISA methodology for HIV, after multiple batteries of testing with comparable dates from exposure, sufficiently confirms negative status," Mitchell told AVN.com
"All of the talent have tested by these methods at least twice in the last month, most have tested three times in 45 days. As specialists in this field it is our view that the HIV virus would have clearly referenced by all of these methods in a maximum of 30 days.
"AIM Healthcare Foundation wishes to thank you for your participation in keeping the industry healthy and abiding by all guidelines, set forth to protect the industry from the spread of HIV."
Regarding the production moratorium that the bulk of the industry voluntarily agreed to, in light of the decision to accelerate releasing people from quarantine, Mitchell said that the moratorium could be lifted.
"If you are not shooting any of the people that are still under the quarantine list, then I see no reason not to start shooting again," Mitchell said. "If they are still on quarantine, don't shoot them."
