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In it together – THH helps the community respond to COVID-19

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Thorne Harbour Health was formed in 1983 as a central part of the Victorian community response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It provides a range of services which include prevention education, treatment and care of PLHIV and counselling services, as well as serving the health needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) communities.

What’s happening right now will, for many people, evoke memories of the “AIDS Crisis” (as it was first called) of the 1980s and 1990s.

Then, as now, there was a lot of fear and confusion. “There’s certainly similarities because HIV is probably the last major pandemic that we experienced in this country,” says Simon Ruth, CEO of Thorne Harbour Health (THH), “but there’s a lot of differences as

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