Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper
Est.
1979
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ISSUE 1158 FACEBOOK Star Observer
Friday 18 January 2013
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au
Midsumma Carnival
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Second man denied PEP
>> NSW
ALEX MCKINNON...
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Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper
Est.
1979
ONLINE TWITTER @star_observer
ISSUE 1158 FACEBOOK Star Observer
Friday 18 January 2013
starobserver.
com.
au
Midsumma Carnival
photos page 28
Second man denied PEP
>> NSW
ALEX MCKINNON
Another gay man has come forward
claiming he was unable to access HIVpreventative medication from his local
health centre due to ignorance of proper
procedurefrommedicalstaff.
Following the Star Observer’s report
last week on a major hospital refusing
to prescribe PEP medication to an atrisk gay man, a second man has claimed
he was unable to access the medication
frommultipleregionalhealthcentres.
20-year old Orange man Joseph*,
whose name has been changed, claims
that on Saturday June 23 last year he was
unable to access PEP medication from
Orange Base Hospital as medical staff
wereunsurewhatthemedicationwas.
Joseph immediately attempted to
make an appointment with a local
sexual health clinic, but was not see
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