By James Nye. Two of the porn actors recently diagnosed HIV-Positive used an emotional press conference today to call on the industry to require all performers to use condoms and criticized the length of time between testing - as a third performer believed to be infected with the virus came forward publicly. Actors Cameron Bay and her boyfriend Rod Daily spoke at an event in Hollywood organized by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and said that they learned days apart last month that they were infected as the industry reels from the news that up to four different actors could have the deadly disease. Fighting back tears, the pair said that the recent outbreak of HIV infections proves the industry wrong when they say testing performers for the virus and other sexually transmitted diseases every 14 days is sufficient.

Charlie Sheen confirmed to the world on Tuesday that he was indeed the mystery Hollywood actor who has been secretly battling HIV. Opening up for the first time in public, the troubled actor, 50, and father-of-five told Matt Lauer on American morning TV show Today : "I am here to admit I am HIV-positive and I have to put a stop to the onslaught and barrage of attacks and sub-truths and harmful stories that are about threatening the health of so many others. Credit: AP. Since his admission a number of allegations have come out about the star, including claims he paid for sex with male and female porn stars and how six former sexual partners are preparing to sue him. Credit: Twitter. The director described the adult star as a "co-worker" and told the publication: "This was the first time we realised Charlie was not only into female porn stars but males too. He told me there were four other girls there — one other porn star and the other three girls worked for the star.

There had been twenty-two reported HIV cases in the U. The majority being actors who work in gay films, while the rest were working in heterosexual productions. For the reason that pornographic filmmaking involves unsimulated sex, generally without condoms, hence porn actors are particularly vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases STDs. In , famous Hollywood entity Charlie Sheen publicly revealed that he was HIV positive, diagnosed about four years earlier. Since his revelation, many adult actresses have come forward claiming that they weren't aware of his situation while engaging in sexual acts with him.

As of [update] , 22 HIV cases in the U. According to former pornographic actress Shelley Lubben , a s outbreak of HIV led to the death of 27 porn stars between and , including Wade Nichols who died in , [7] John Holmes , Marc Stevens , and Al Parker Six months previously, he had tested negative. During the summer of , Holmes, knowing his HIV status, agreed to perform in two pornographic films to be filmed in Italy, without informing the producers of his HIV status. It was concluded that James had been infected while engaging in unprotected anal sex with Brazilian actress Bianca Biaggi during a scene for the video Split That Booty 2 in Rio de Janeiro.