Quote from Howard Aaron Aronow, MD
by draronow 6.25.09
Every 9 and a half minutes another person becomes HIV positive in the United States. AIM provides state-of-the-art testing and counseling for HIV and all STD’s and we encourage our clients to test frequently.
The vast majority of our clients have repeat HIV and STD testing every 1-2 months. While we do our best to prevent new cases of HIV infection, we can not prevent all new cases amongst our clientele.
Recently, we have had an isolated case of a new HIV infection. Using our rapid detection protocol combining standardly used tests know as the HIV ELISA and more sophisticated tests known as the Proviral-DNA HIV PCR Qualitative assay, we are able to rapidly identify very new infections before most other medical facilities.
Through our confidential, dynamic partner notification system, we offer immediate testing and counseling to all individuals who have been exposed to and are at potential risk for developing HIV when one of our clients happens to test HIV positive. We go well above and beyond standard epidemiologic partner notification and test 3 generations of partners for HIV.
This means that we test our HIV positive client’s partners and regardless of the results, we quickly test the partner’s partners and we even go so far as to test the 3rd generation of the original partner’s partner’s partners.
With regard to this isolated case of a single client testing HIV positive, all of the three generations of partners have tested HIV negative to date. These results underscore the need for remaining calm and exemplify the assurance that our counseling and testing methods are extremely effective at keeping our clients safe and healthy.
Their statements continue to blow my mind. “We always go back 3 generations”! Right!! Why is it that it took them weeks to include the 2nd much less the 3 generation of exposed performers? They released earlier statements saying they had to decide if they were going any deeper on the quarantine and then didn’t even let us know when they put 13 (making a total of 16 I’ve heard) more performers on quarantine.
They also insisted that none of the 18 additional HIV cases they’ve had over the past 5 years were performers yet he clearly states here that the vast majority of their clients get tests every 1-2 months. That’s not laymen getting tested. Most people in the real world never get tested until they have a scare or to begin a new sexual relationship. This just shows those cases were related to the porn industry.
This just shows we still have no idea what the truth is. Their stories change every time they open their mouths!!
AIM/Mitchel are full of BS. They are covering for the industry and risking the lives of the workers. All of these high risk flip-flop gay performers that had sex with HIV MILF before her last positive test are still working. These guys are barebacking the female workers in the industry on and off camera.
AIM looks the other way, and just cares about PR spin. While they don’t test for Hep or herp. Nor do they help inform the women in the business on which male performers are flip-flop gays.
But who is on the quarantine list? Seth Dickens is one.