HIV/AIDS Prevention

Los Angeles county gives tentative approval for bathhouse regulations

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, September 28th, 2004

The Los Angeles, California, county Board of Supervisors tentatively approved a law that would require sex clubs and gay bathhouses to obtain health permits in hopes of reducing high HIV rates.

The action follows a federally funded study of two Los Angeles bathhouses in 2001 and 2002 that found 11% of the patrons tested positive for HIV, double the rate for gay men nationwide and nearly seven times that of the general public.

"We certainly have a public health risk," said Jonathan Fielding, MD, the county's public health director. He estimated the commercial sex venues attract 600,000 patrons a year.

The county has the authority...

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (2004-09-28)

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