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.
Mirroring a situation in this state that was fixed by the Michigan Department of Community Health, at least some counties in the state of Indiana are using consent and acknowledgment forms for those who test positive for HIV that are medically and legally inaccurate.
An appellate court in Florida has ruled that the state’s HIV disclosure law can only be used to charge heterosexuals, saying that the law does not apply in the case of a woman accused of having sex with another woman but failing to disclose her HIV-positive status.
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.
U.S. Congressman Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit) says the draft legislation being floated by California Rep. Barbara Lee “looks like a good bill.”
Researchers have developed a simple microchip which is capable of successfully identifying HIV and syphilis with less than a drop of blood.
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.
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health report a genetically engineered bacteria common to the vagina can cut HIV infections by 63 percent.
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.
Eighteen months ago, the Flint City Council approved a pilot project to allow intravenous drug users to trade their dirty needles in for clean ones. But now that pilot program, authorized by ordinance, has ended and the city is considering a permanent change to its drug paraphernalia law to allow the program to continue.
An increase in people with addictions to opiates is putting a stain on state budget allocation to programs that help people out of addiction.
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