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Dr. Sharon Mitchell
PH.D. in Human Sexuality
Founder of the
Adult Industry Medical
Health Care Foundation
Dr. Mitchell received her PH.D. in Human Sexuality from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. California. She completed her residency in Los Angeles, California at the AIM Healthcare Foundation.
In February 2001 Dr. Mitchell was invited by the South African Government to help write documentation that has been submitted to the Minister of Health on forming a sexworker organization for better healthcare and now has a satellite program in Johannesburg with DISA sexual health and reproductive center.
In 1999 Dr. Mitchell was invited to Budapest Hungary to teach HIV and Hepatitis monitoring programs for the Adult Industry Talent.
Dr. Mitchell is active in all forms of local and national government and is considered as an activist and educator for sexworkers all over the world. Through her, AIM has become affiliated with government health services in Los Angeles County and at the national level. She regularly speaks about HIV prevention education throughout the US, and has traveled to Hungary and South Africa to address community leaders and sex workers there. She is a featured speaker at the annual US Conference on AIDS. She organizes fund raisers and convinces companies and individuals to donate to AIM programs. Dr. Sharon is launching outreach into other sex and strip clubs, to be managed by a former strip club dancer. Long-term, her goal is to emphasize sex workers' rights and to encourage their independent decision making. And, she's developing harm reduction programs for sexually active adults, teens, and drug users to minimize behavioral risks to themselves and others.
In 1998 there was an HIV outbreak in the Adult Entertainment Industry involving many people that Dr. Mitchell had worked with when she was in movies. The Industry gave Dr. Mitchell the support that she needed to found the AIM Healthcare Foundation. AIM is a nonprofit organization serving sexworkers and the general public in areas of HIV testing, and counseling of many types, including gynecology services, STD testing and treatment and industry related educational groups and videotape informational materials. Today AIM Heathcare serves over 1,200 clients a month and is expanding into a larger full service facility (we have opened another location in Woodland Hills, California) to better serve the community. Dr. Sharon Mitchell is known an expert and as a resource in sexual health and education and has been on many television and radio shows including CNN, 20/20, O’Reily Report, OP ED Piece/NY Times, National Public Radio, MTV, HBO, MSNBC, KROQ, LA TIMES, LA DAILY NEWS, LANCET MEDICAL JOURNAL, ELLE MAGAZINE, POZ MAGAZINE. Dr. Mitchell also lectures and teaches an HIV, STD safe love class at colleges, institutions of many types.
In 1996 Dr. Mitchell survived a near fatal attack on her life by a crazed fan, which changed her life forever. Shortly after the attack Dr. Mitchell returned to college and became a certified counselor specializing in HIV and Chemical Dependency. She is now a MPH/Clinical Sexologist and has received her Ph.D. in Human Sexuality from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, California.
Dr. Sharon Mitchell spent 25 years in the Adult Entertainment Industry as an actress, appearing in over 2000 movies, as a dancer performing in venues all over the world, and she has produced and directed over 42 movies.
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