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 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 2006 policy guidance from the Michigan Department of Community Health that places some HIV-positive people on a statewide list without recourse for being removed from the list has advocates raising concerns about its legality.
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force on Tuesday called on the Michigan Department of Community Health to heed the calls for action on its delayed n-PEP policy.
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.
In December of 2009, Michigan Messenger reported about the lack of policies and procedures in relation to the distribution of non-occupational post exposure prophylaxis (n-PEP) in the state. The n-PEP procedure uses a high dose of antiretroviral medications for 28 days to prevent the HIV virus from infecting a person after exposure. It has been [...]
After originally claiming that they could not release documents related to the state’s spending on H1N1 prevention and treatment for national security reasons, the Michigan Department of Community Health has reversed its denial and released the documents.
A proposed budget plan introduced Tuesday by House Republicans would eliminate 15 percent of the funding provided to several minority groups in the greater Detroit area, which advocates say would result in higher medical costs for the state and reductions in income tax generated by job placement programs.
LANSING — The state of Michigan passed out millions of dollars in federal funds to private and public groups during the H1N1 crisis in 2009, but where that money actually went appears to be a closely guarded secret.
For those exposed to the HIV virus that causes AIDS, access to anti-retroviral drugs within the first 72 hours may prevent them from being infected. But as the experience of one University of Michigan graduate student shows, access to the critical drugs in the state of Michigan is hit or miss at best as many health care providers are unaware of treatment protocols and the state has no guidelines for handling exposure.
LANSING — City Council members are divided about whether the city should ask Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox to investigate the city attorney’s release of the HIV-positive status of a man arrested in a May 22 undercover sex sting operation in a city nature center.
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