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21 Nov 2017

Stop blaming migrants for the NO Vote, and would you take PrEP for STIs? : 21st November 2017

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Thousands of Australians are now taking HIV Prep – either in demonstration studies or by purchasing the drug from overseas, but what if there was also another option – an antibiotic pill that could prevent STIs?  Ian spoke to two people who were part of a panel debate at the HIV and AIDs Sexual Health Conference in Canberra on STI Prep;  Associate Professor David Templeton, who is clinical services manager at RPA Sexual Health in Sydney and Chris Williams from Prep Access Now.

 

 

 

In the wake of the Postal Survey on marriage equality, a heated debate has started up about the role migrant communities played in the electorates that voted No, particularly those in Western Sydney. Is this racism, misunderstandings or miscommunication?

 Ruby speaks with Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, a Vietnamese Australian writer, and the communications manager for the Feminist Writers Festival, who’s opinion piece: “My conservative Vietnamese family from western Sydney voted ‘yes’ – stop blaming migrants” was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on November 17

 

Ian and Ruby are then joined by Sally Rugg, from GetUp and Ivan Hinton-Teoh from Just.Equal to discuss the low result in certain parts of Western Sydney.

This episode of The Informer on JOY 94.9 is hosted by Ruby Susan and ­Ian Muchamore.

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