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.
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.
Michigan teenagers continue to become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, at an alarming rate, Michigan health officials say. From a press release from the Michigan Department of Community Health in advance of Tuesday’s World AIDS Day events:
In his address on the 20th anniversary World AIDS Day, President-elect Barack Obama said, “Today, because of the work of people like you, women in Kenya who were widowed because by the disease and once shunned by society have banded together to support and empower each other. Scientists around the world are discovering and engineering [...]
All tests are free. At locations doing rapid tests, results will be available in 20 minutes: Calhoun County Public Health Department 190 E. Michigan Ave., Suite A 100 Battle Creek, MI 49014 Nov. 30, 8-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. JoDee Marsh (269) 969-6493 Central Michigan District Health [...]
World AIDS Day, an event that started at a meeting of world health ministers in 1988, will be marked with a series of events in Michigan this Friday and Saturday. The program, originally coordinated by the United Nations AIDS organization, was taken over in 2004 by World AIDS Campaign (WorldAIDSCampaign.info). This year’s worldwide theme is [...]
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