I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
A new federal funding formula from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta will result in a reduction of $2.1 million in federal funding for the state of Michigan for HIV testing and prevention by 2014.
Wednesday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its first multi-year report on HIV infections in the U.S, finding that new infections remained stable at about 50,000 per year, but also noting that young, black, gay or bisexual men saw increasing infection rates over that time period — the only risk group to see an increase.
HIV researchers on Wednesday announced that two new studies on the use of anti-retroviral medications as a preventative measure in those not infected with the virus that causes AIDS have proven effective in heterosexuals.
Americans infected with HIV are often finding out that not only are they infected with the virus, but it has done significant enough damage to their immune system that they fit the clinical diagnosis of AIDS.
On the 30th anniversary of the first American publication to note a strange new disease in previously healthy gay men, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has issued a study which includes a conclusion on how often gay, bisexual or men who have sex with men should be tested for HIV.
Lawmakers in Nebraska on Tuesday came one step closer to passing a controversial piece of legislation which activists say is not based in sound science and is likely to increase stigma around HIV and Hepatitis infections.
LANSING — A policy to provide access to people who have been exposed to HIV to anti-retroviral medications has been stalled in the Michigan Department of Community Health’s legal department for months, documents obtained by Michigan Messenger show.
A coalition of over 80 HIV/AIDS service organization have sent a letter to Congress seeking increased funding for HIV prevention and care programming in the country.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta issued new guidelines last week designed to help health care providers counsel patients and determine if taking powerful antiretroviral medications will be an effective prevention strategy.
The Michigan Department of Community Health has failed to fulfill a promise of a new policy addressing the use of anti-retroviral medications to prevent new infections of HIV.
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