Feature Articles

Summer 2010

Leadership in Community Involvement - David Whiters, PhD. the keynote speaker at a recent conference sponsored by the MDCH Bureau of Substance Abuse and Addiction Services (BSAAS) discusses a new recovery philosophy at the Bureau called Recovery Oriented System of Care (ROSC).  See also the Fact Sheet on Michigan's Transformation to a Recovery Oriented System of Care for Substance Use Disorder Services - Families in Recovery

Winter-Spring 2010

Fall 2009

A long overdue issue focus on STDs; Syphilis Team Works - Genesee County Health Department’s Communicable Disease Intervention Response Team (CDIRT) exemplary actions arrest a syphilis outbreak.

Summer 2009

Back to the Future with Larry Gant - This early advocate in the African American community, a collaborator who worked with the community in response to the needs of the emerging AIDS epidemic talks about his work with the National AIDS Fund, the syringe exchange movement and the future of prevention.

Winter/Spring 2009

Phone Call Sends MHAC Member to Tanzania - Rosalind Andrews Worthy takes Gospel Against AIDS trainers on another international expedition to Africa.

Fall 2008

Features in this issue include: Moving Forward at HPLS, a report on this summer’s national HIV Prevention Leadership Summit, held in Detroit; and Reaching out with the New Media an exploration of how we can better reach out to our clients and those most at-risk using new media.

HPLS Special Issue 2008

One Size Does Not Fit All - Here, in Michigan, we are constantly exploring new avenues for prevention. We are not the state of “one size fits all.”

Winter 2008

Ode to a Viral Protagonist - This story isn’t just about the incredible and outrageous Sammye Stamper. It is about his impact on others in HIV prevention and care. 

Fall 2007

A New Paradigm of Hope - Reaching African Americans for HIV prevention and care requires a new perspective on a broader scope.

Summer 2007

Testing, It isn't as easy as 1, 2, 3 - A look at the Michigan response to the CDC's recommendations for HIV testing in healthcare settings.

Winter-Spring 2007

When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty Years ago - with prevention dollars dwindling we have to ask ourselves if we are doing the right thing now with those resources. A close look at prevention education for adolescents.

Fall 2006

XVI “Time to Deliver” - Human rights was the central theme of all of the global leaders who spoke at the XVI International Conference on AIDS in Toronto. And they emphasized “It’s Time to Deliver.” STITCHES Goes Global at XVI International Conference and special web feature, Mending the Future.
 

Spring-Summer 2006

Infertility Prevention - This issue focuses on STDs and the alarming rate of Chlamydia among adolescents. Here's what MDCH is doing about it.

Winter 2006

Positively Prevention - Prevention Options for Positives (POP) is an intervention proven to change the risk behavior of persons living with HIV within a context of peer support.

Fall 2005

Close Up on the New Michigan AIDS Fund

Summer 2005

‘Tina’ Leading Down a High Risk Path for MSM

Spring 2005

An Interview with HAPIS Manager Debra Szwejda

Winter 2005

Reaching MSM of Color with Prevention;  West Michigan Clinic Model for Rural Services; An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure: A recap of recent prevention research presentations and reports (unabridged article coming soon)

Fall 2004

Salute To Veterans in the War on AIDS - Kendra Kleber, JD, who founded Michigan Advocates Exchange (MAX) in 2000; and David Piontkowsky, MD, JD recognized for his early legal advocacy activities.
 

Spring-Summer 2004

Gospel Against AIDS Goes Global - GAA Ghana

A New Fidelity - Process Evaluation
 

Winter 2004

An Interview with the Prevention Pro - Liisa Randall

Also, DHAS Director Loretta Davis-Satterla's column and DHAS News featuring this issue The Prevention Community Partnerships Unit.

Fall 2003

One Corner of the World - Jonathan Cohn, MD, head of the Title IV program at DMC and director of the new Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center – Michigan, on the plan for care in Mozambique. (Active links to References and Resources.)

Also, DHAS Director Loretta Davis-Satterla's column and DHAS News featuring this issue The Continuum of Care Unit.

Summer 2003

Syphilis, all about it and how MDCH and Detroit are teaming up to eliminate it (graphs only available in the PDF format) ; and Men at Work, prevention work in Detroit's bathhouses.

Also, DHAS Director Loretta Davis-Satterla's column and DHAS News featuring this issue the Education, Training, and Resource Development Unit -available in the PDF format.

Spring 2003

Adult Well-Being Services in Detroit developed a unique collaborative program Linking substance abuse and HIV prevention for older African Americans

Also, a new column by DHAS Director, Loretta Davis-Satterla "Defining Our Mission"; and DHAS conducts Statewide Needs Assessment

Winter 2003

Eve Mokotoff and MI Surveillance Team - Boldly going where no one has gone before

Fall 2002

Safeguards for Sexual Minority Youth

Summer 2002

The New Order: Regional Planning to be Phased Out

Improving Care for Gays and Lesbians

Spring 2002

No Small Change: An interview with Ellen Ives, former HAPIS Training Section Coordinator

Retrovirus Conference: A care overview, by Dr. Paul Benson.

Winter 2002

Positively Prevention: An Interview with Mark Peterson

They Care....Do You? Jonathan Cohn, MD and Jon Lacey, Rel.D. on their work in Africa.

Fall 2001

Hispanic Outreach to MSM in Michigan

Hispanics Against AIDS

Summer 2001

An interview with Glen Jack, the new Executive Director for the Michigan AIDS Fund

Tailoring Hispanic Outreach in SEM - Latino Family Services - Energetic duo reaches out to Detroit's Spanish-speaking community

Winter 2001  

An Interview with David Seal, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR), Medical College of Wisconsin. He is the Milwaukee-Detroit Principal Investigator for the Community Intervention Trial for Youth (CITY Project)- a national study of young men who have sex with men (YMSM). The Midwest AIDS Prevention Project in metro Detroit and the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin are the two community-based organizations collaborating for this study. 

Fall 2000

Veteran AIDS Advocate takes Leave - Rene Meave looks back. Also, Kendra Kleber writes about Stigma.

Summer 2000

Women Living with HIV//AIDS - The story of two heroic Michigan woman.

Winter 2000

Prevention for Women - Highlights prevention programs for women in Michigan.

Voices at the Top - Top level management in the state on prevention for women. 

An interview with Loretta Davis-Satterla - On a variety of topics including women, the direction the state is going, and new interventions.

Fall 1999

Following is the link to the unabridged article

Hepatitis C - The latest public Health Risk

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