In Australia, the Pharmaceutical Benefit Advisory Committee, has given a positive recommendation in November 2011, to extend the program to boys. This is, as has been mentioned elsewhere here, a huge step.

However, it's subject to Federal Governement funding and the Federal Government is delivering the Budget next week. I'm not holding my breath because the government has been pledging to get the budget back into surplus and the leaks to the media this week are all about cuts to spending.

I've written to my Federal member of parliament, pointing out this stunning inequity. Maybe other Aussie members here can too.