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.
LANSING — A bill submitted by state Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) that would eliminate state funding for HIV prevention and other important health initiatives, is raising alarms in the public health community. Agema has proposed eliminating the Michigan Health Fund Initiative (MHFI) which is a special Michigan Department of Community Health fund created by law [...]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the White House earlier this week announced the first plan in 20 years to directly and publicly address the HIV epidemic in the United States, but that plan is not sitting well with some AIDS advocates locally in Michigan.
The Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), the nation’s largest HIV charity, is criticizing the 2009 Omnibus Appropriations bill because it holds funding flat for HIV prevention efforts through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The organization contends such a flat funding scale when taken into account with inflation is in fact a reduction [...]
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