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Michigan News Archives
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News around the State
Summer News
MICHIGAN:
"Ingham County Health Department Amends HIV Document"
Lansing State Journal, (08.24.2007) Derek Wallbank
Some AIDS advocates say Ingham County Health Department (ICHD) officials have
not done enough to remove the legal uncertainties around a document every person
who tests HIV-positive is asked to sign. See
Prevention News.
MDCH Receives Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) Funding
The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) is pleased to announce it has
been awarded Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) funding through the federal Health
Resources and Services Administration.
MDCH is scheduled to receive $141,887 each year, for a three-year project
period, beginning August 2007. MAI provides funding for activities to evaluate
and address the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on racial and ethnic
minorities.
MDCH will use these funds to contract with AIDS Partnership Michigan (APM)-an
experienced Detroit community-based organization-to increase access of eligible
minority HIV positive releasing prisoners to the Part B AIDS Drug Assistance
Program (ADAP) (and, as appropriate, other programs that provide prescription
drug coverage), and increase access of eligible minority youth (aged 13-24) to
the Part B ADAP, other prescription programs, and medical care and treatment
services.
“In addition to continuing to fund current programs and working to contain
costs, MDCH has a unique opportunity to support some of our most vulnerable
citizens,” said Janet Olszewski, MDCH Director. “Receiving this additional
funding is an important step in addressing and reducing those health disparities
experienced by racial and ethnic minorities in Michigan.”
These projects will focus on two separate populations. One project, Community
Re-entry, targets HIV positive prisoners and their release from Michigan
Department of Corrections (MDOC) facilities. Annually, MDOC facilities release
approximately 70 HIV positive individuals in need of community-based, follow-up
assistance that properly links released prisoners to the AIDS Drug Assistance
Program, other medication programs, and into medical care and treatment plans.
The other project, Youth Link, will link minority youth who are living
with HIV to medical care and treatment services, including the ADAP. Activities
will include: engagement - to establish trust, assess barriers to accessing
medical care and ADAP services including mental/emotional challenges and
substance use, provision of HIV education/information; stabilization - linkage
to HIV case management services to address basic needs of food, clothing and
housing; transitioning- linkage to appropriate medical care services including
escorting into the medical care setting; and recruitment of successful peer
models to provide ongoing mentoring and support particularly as it relates to
retention in medical care and treatment adherence.
Services will be provided primarily in the metropolitan Detroit area, including
the city of Detroit and contiguous counties.
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A4C Looks at Prevention Needs Assessment
Michigan's African American AIDS Advisory Committee (A4C) met in
Lansing on August 14. In the morning prior to the formal meeting, MDCH provided
a training on Prevention Needs Assessment by Amy Peterson, former technical
assistance coordinator for the HIV/AIDS Prevention Intervention Section (HAPIS).
The training was a review for some, but a good refresher on the importance of
assessing the real type of need that clients have before trying to design a
prevention program for them.
Draft 2008 Title V MCH Block Grant Application and 2006 Annual Report
In
accordance with federal regulations, public comment is invited on the FY
2008 draft application for Title V Maternal and Child Health Services.
Comments may be mailed to the Michigan Department of Community Health,
Bureau of Family, Maternal and Child Health, 201 Townsend Street, 6th
Floor, Lansing, MI 48913, or e-mailed to oganc@michigan.gov
by July 12 2007.A paper copy of the application is available by
calling (517) 335-8946, or click
here to view the electronic version of the application.MICHIGAN:
"Bill Would Mandate HPV Data"
Detroit News, (06.18.2007) Kim Kozlowski
A bill that recently cleared the state Senate would require that parents of
sixth-graders be given information about the vaccine Gardasil, which protects
against four common strains of human papillomavirus (HPV). The bill, now in a
House subcommittee, is expected to become law. CDC
Summary
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