BOISE, Idaho — Sean, a 56-year-old Boise man, sat in one of Planned Parenthood’s exam rooms in Meridian as he waited for his prescription.

When he came out as bisexual last year, he and his wife decided to pursue a type of open relationship. As Sean began having sexual relationships with different partners, he knew the health center would be the place to go for pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, antiviral medications that can help prevent the transmission of HIV.

Sean has gone to the clinic, a simple tan and brown building tucked a short drive down Franklin Street off of Eagle Road, for the antivirals for a year. He told the Idaho Statesman he tried to move his PrEP prescription to his primary care physician’s supervision. She was “not comfortable with my lifestyle,” he recalled her tell

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