national volunteer work in the newly opened gerald simon auditorium in laguna honda. i'd like the health officer to come um to talk about some issues in los angeles county regarding invasive disease among men who have sex with men, but before that the mayor did ensure the language access for doug speaking for city residents and announced that certification in filipino as a third required language in addition to chinese and spanish covered under the language access ordinance and the department is working hard on making sure our documents reflect that. >> good afternoon. so on april 2 is los angeles county department of public health reported that they had eight cases of disease and four of those were among men who had sex with men and four were hiv positive. when you calculate the population rates of the disease for that population it's significantly elevated so they recommended -- msm especially if you're hiv positive to get vaccinated against the disease. a outbreak occurred about a year ago in new york city and the similar recommendations were made there and what we