They wanted to perform a follow-up test and begin notifying performers he had worked with since his last negative test result Sept.
When he got there, he said, clinic staff told him that he had tested HIV-positive. 8, then received a panicked call from clinic staff the following afternoon, summoning him to the office. Producers of straight porn regularly check performers’ test results using a database maintained by the clinic, known as AIM, to clear actors for work.īurts, who performed in straight films as “Cameron Reid” and gay films as “Derek Chambers,” said he was tested at the clinic Oct. He had previously been identified only as Patient Zeta. The adult film performer who tested HIV-positive at a San Fernando Valley clinic this fall spoke out for the first time Tuesday, calling for mandatory condom use in porn productions, improved testing for sexually transmitted disease and follow-up care for fellow performers.ĭerrick Burts, 24, said he tested HIV-positive in October at the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation in Sherman Oaks after working in both gay and straight porn films for a few months.
