OK you can call the AIDS hotline through the Albion Street Clinic 02 9332 9600. After hours, the recorded message will give you the emergency after hour’s number, which will link you to the Prince of Wales Hospital.

In Queensland it is the Roma Street Clinic but I don't know if they have an emergency 24 hour hotline.

Your number one concern after possible exposure is not vengeance; you want to minimise the chance of sero-conversion.

If you are in this situation of possible exposure, you must call the closest hospital community health or STD clinic ASAP, or the 24-hour hotline.

This is because your daughter could be taking protease inhibitors and anti retrovirals as a chance to stop sero-conversion. They call this the PEP program. It apparently can work as a last emergency step prevention for infection. But there is no guarantee.

The "window" period between possible contact and sero-conversion is 3 months. So you could get a false positive this week. Within the next few months, she could still sero-convert. In this time, she could still be eligible for PEP, just in case.

Just a handy tip for you from the Saint.

Sorry, above re-PEP and window period I said "false positive", a meant "false negative". +++God Bless+++

saintfletcher
just spoke to my daughter and the PEP drug only works BEFORE your blisters erruptfor the first time.
She diddnt know she had blisters B4 this(duh)
the guy she slept with had no sores or blisters (possibly a silent carrier) he had himself tested also today(at least they are staying in contact and doing the right thing re going to get tests at appropriate clinics etc)
mabye i misunderstand you,i think you are saying take the PEP straight after unprotected sex?as a preventative
unfortunatley her blisters appeared exactly at the time expected_21 days after contact is the window period
i still feel strongly that the onus is on the carrier always
a big responsability, but it musnt be irked. Imagine irking other health responsabilities like driving safely. Why is this kind of driving any different And sure if you forget to put your seat belt on in a car you will suffer the damage. (yes own fault) yet the driver needs to face his part also.
And own up to their own contagious bodies and be a responsible carrier.

freediver~ knowingly, or intentionally?

'Knowingly?', then my opinion doesn't change. P.R.O.T.E.C.T.I.O.N, and Q.U.E.S.T.I.O.N...and don't jump in the sack on 'first date'. Get some trust going. Is it worth it not to?.

'Intentionally?', then you 'should' have a case for assault, or something similar to assault.

But minimise the chances by being smart. The original author's daughter is a prime example of "it can happen".

What is the difference between knowingly and intentionally? That distinction would just have people stand up in court and say yes I had unprotected sex and yes I knew I was spreading the disease but no I didn't actually intend to spread the disease I just wanted to have sex.

hello freediver, i happen to be the origional POST master
i also interpret knowingly as intentionaly
-what else can it be
im presuming that OLDER bodies as mine would either have herpes or know better by now, as in wait awhile and/ or use protection
young people dont all have these skill
some may but its certainly not even a half of them
Im presuming this 'Law' imposing a fine would protect the generations from here on.
As my daughter has Herpes already she cant go back.
We could as intelligent adults protect those to come.
If a law and a fine /record were to be put in place it would be no different to the protection type laws we already feel appropriate to enforce as humans.
And, so what if it has consequences for those that then choose to go behind such a law, whats new? there will always be law breakers and when caught they have to pay the penalty.
Lets clean this mess up (Herpes) or at least for now stop its spread.
this isnt a third world country.