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.
Democratic California Rep. Barbara Lee on Friday introduced legislation aimed at addressing the on-going criminalization of persons living with HIV infection and Reps. Hansen Clarke and John Conyers of Detroit have signed on as co-sponsors of the bill.
When Gov. Rick Snyder issued his health and wellness message to the legislature last week, HIV activists were hoping to hear from Snyder about how he intended to address the HIV epidemic in the state. They were sorely disappointed.
Officials in both the executive and legislative branches of the federal government have begun the process of pushing states to repeal HIV-specific criminal laws and to address HIV criminalization in general.
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.
The Michigan Department of Community Health says that Michigan residents without insurance or cash to pay the $1,000 tab for a one month prescription to prevent infection with HIV after an exposure are on their own in finding ways to pay for the drugs.
A policy directing Michigan health care providers to provide a potentially life saving intervention for people exposed to HIV through consensual or non-consensual sexual activity or drug use has still not been issued by the Michigan Department of Community Health.
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.
Less than 24 hours after a civil rights organization called for state and federal civil rights investigations into the use of controversial “Client Acknowledgment Forms” by local health departments in the state, at least one state agency is taking notice.
Various organizations representing HIV-positive residents in Michigan as well as groups representing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people statewide and nationally are slamming a plan by a Republican state lawmaker to eliminate funding from a 33 year old health fund and transfer the money to airport funding.
Activists, civil rights attorneys and AIDS service organizations met for the first time last week in New York City to launch a project that seeks an end to HIV-specific criminal laws in the U.S. and around the world.
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