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Happenings
Federal
funds
end
for
HIV/AIDS
transitional
shelter
Kim
Kozlowski
/
The
Detroit
News/June
25
A
Detroit
shelter
for
people
with
HIV/AIDS
will
be
closing
this
week
as
the
nation
encourages
people
to
get
tested
today
for
the
virus.
The
$100,000
that
has
been
funneled
to
Helping
Hands
for
three
years
has
run
out,
according
to
Rose
Love,
a
Detroit
spokeswoman.
The
money
came
from
federal
funds,
Housing
Opportunities
for
Persons
with
AIDS,
and
is
intended
to
fund
programs
that
offer
permanent
housing.
Helping
Hands
is
a
transitional
program,
and
the
11
residents
will
be
transferred
to
a
permanent
shelter,
Love
said.
Gregory
Porter,
who's
lived
at
Helping
Hands
for
two
months,
said
he
doesn't
know
what
he
is
going
to
do.
"The
health
department
has
been
phasing
out
shelters
for
people
with
HIV,"
Porter
said.
"They
keep
saying
the
funding
is
not
there.
They
keep
saying
they
are
transitioning
people
into
Section
8
housing
but
everyone
knows
Section
8
is
closed."
The
looming
closure
comes
when
several
organizations
will
be
offering
free
HIV
tests
today
on
National
HIV
Test
Day,
including
several
sites
throughout
Metro
Detroit.
About
17,000
people
in
Michigan
are
living
with
AIDS.
Of
those
people,
42
percent
live
in
Detroit.
Though
the
number
of
cases
has
remained
stable
from
2001-05,
there
has
been
a
decrease
in
HIV
cases
among
intravenous
drug
users
as
there
has
been
an
increase
in
HIV
infections
among
the
age
groups
of
13-19
and
20-24,
according
to
Michigan
Community
Department
of
Health
data.
Among
those
two
groups
of
men,
84
percent
are
African-American,
a
statistic
that
troubles
Detroit
city
health
leaders.
"It's
an
issue
we
have
to
take
very
seriously,"
said
Calvin
Trent,
general
manager
of
Detroit's
Department
of
Health
and
Wellness
Promotion.
Happenings
HIV
Motivational
Mondays
Educational
Topics
for
2007
Kresge
Eye
Institute,
4717
St.
Antoine
Blvd
Detroit,
MI,
(Connected
to
old
Hutzel
Hospital),
Classroom
D
(in
basement
of
Kresge)
5:00pm-7:00pm
Join
us
on
the
second
Monday
of
each
month
for
education,
socialization
and
empowerment.
Dinner
Provided.
Please
RSVP
to
Jennifer
VanNuil
at
800-422-3227
ext
461
or
email
jvannuil@directrx.com
August
13
HIV
Legal
Rights
&
Responsibilities
(Confidentiality,
disclosure,
telling
doctors,
telling
friends,
discrimination
at
work,
solving
problems,
avoiding
problems....etc)
**Presented
by
Kendra
S.
Kleber,
JD
(Kendra
S.
Kleber
&
Associates
PLLC
Sept
10
Nutrition
and
Healthy
Living
**Presented
by
Amanda
Zawaideh,
Pharm.D.
June
30
Lansing
Pride
March
www.michiganpride.org
June
30
SENIOR
PROM
-
Timewarp
2007
APM’s
Annual
Gala
Benefit
complete
details
and
tickets
at
www.aidspartnership.org
July
8
28th
Annual
Metra
Picnic
www.metramagazine.com
July
14
Healing
Our
World
from
the
Inside
Out:
Is
a
Compassionate
Listening
workshop
building
skills
for
communicating
from
the
heart,
even
in
the
heat
of
conflict.
It’s
about
people
making
peace
in
their
families,
communities,
jobs
and
world.
Participants
cultivate:
Compassion
for
themselves
and
other
Freedom
from
judgment
Balance
in
stressful
relationships
listening
with
the
heart
speaking
from
the
heart
Facilitated
by
Andrea
Cohen
July
14th,
10:00
-
6
pm,
Sunday
July
15th,
10
am
-
5:00
pm,
NEW
Center,
Suite
208,
South,
1100
North
Main
Street,
Ann
Arbor,
MI
48104.
Sliding
scale:
$150-$300.
Registration:
www.compassionatelistening.org/workshops.htm
l
or
360-297-2280.
Co-sponsor:
American
Friends
Service
Committee’s
Lesbian,
Gay,
Bisexual
and
Transgender
Issues
Program-Michigan
July
30-31
2007
National
Conference
on
Latinos
and
AIDS
The
2007
National
Conference
on
Latinos
and
AIDS
will
take
place
July
30-31,
in
Miami
Beach,
Florida.
The
featured
speaker
this
year
is
Rosie
Perez.
This
conference
is
a
national
forum
on
HIV/AIDS
for
health
professionals
who
provide
care
for
Latino
communities.
It
will
help
health
care
providers
update
their
knowledge,
skills,
and
attitudes
about
HIV/AIDS.
The
conference
was
also
designed
for
healthcare
media,
federal
and
state
legislators,
AIDS
service
organization
officers,
social
workers,
pharmacists,
nurses,
peer
counselors,
church
leadership,
and
corrections
health
care
personnel.
The
aims
of
this
conference
are
to
inform
participants
about
the
epidemiology
of
HIV;
current
HIV
research
and
guidelines;
modern
methods
for
the
management
of
HIV;
social
and
psychiatric
concerns
of
HIV
infected
patients;
and
political
issues,
trends,
and
policy
initiatives
that
impact
HIV
infected
patients.
Read
more
about
the
program
schedule.
Register
online
or
get
more
information
about
this
important
event.
View
the
printable
conference
brochure:
Aug
31
Edwin
H
Drescher
Jr
Memorial
Weekend
at
Higgins
Lake
WINGS
10th
Annual
weekend
to
Higgins
Lake
will
be
for
3
nights
this
year
from
Friday,
August
31
thru
Monday,
September
3.
There
will
be
snacks
provided
on
Friday
afternoon,
8
delicious
meals,
and
3
nights
lodging.
There
is
no
charge
for
this
trip
as
it
was
provided
for
by
the
Edwin
Drescher
Trust,
however
there
is
a
refundable
reservation
fee
of
$25.00
returned
upon
your
arrival.
Transportation
will
be
on
your
own.
The
first
100
paid
reservations
will
attend.
So
why
not
spend
the
holiday
weekend
lakeside
among
friends
and
enjoy
the
roaring
bon
fires,
boating
and
swimming
in
Higgins
Lake,
and
some
just
plain
Good
food
and
FUN
where
you
can
be
all
that
you
are!
Get
your
registration
form
by
writing
to
reservations@wingsmi.org
or
click
the
following
two
links
then
print
out
and
return
the
forms:
http://www.friendsalliance.org/Higgins_Lake_1.jpg
http://www.friendsalliance.org/Higgins_Lake_2.jpg
Sept
16
AIDS
Walk
Detroit
www.aidswalkdetroit.org
Oct
18
Horizons
Project
founder
retirement
dinner
Twenty
years
ago,
she
had
a
vision
that
has
saved
lives
and
human
spirits.
Now,
Kathryn
Wright,
D.O.,
founder
of
The
Horizons
Project,
is
retiring.
A
special
retirement
dinner
and
Inaugural
fundraiser
will
be
held
Thursday,
Oct.
18
from
6
p.m.
to
11
p.m.
at
the
Roostertail
on
the
Detroit
River.
Dr.
Wright
sought
to
provide
nonjudgmental,
youth-sensitive
care
to
adolescents
and
young
adults
living
with
HIV/AIDS.
In
1994,
she
founded
the
Horizons
Project
which
has
evolved
into
Detroit's
premier
HIV/AIDS
agency
for
Youth.
Proceeds
from
the
event
will
directly
support
the
Horizons
Project
of
the
Children's
Hospital
of
Michigan.
For
more
information
contact
Linda
Hyter
at
(313)
924-9493
or
by
email
at
lhyter@dmc.org
In
the
News
Monograph
on
the
HIV/AIDS
Crisis
in
Puerto
Rico.
NMAC
June,
2007
Rather
than
simply
explain
the
bureaucratic
problems
around
the
AIDS
health
care
emergency
in
PR,
the
monograph
contains
stories
from
those
living
with
HIV/AIDS,
their
families
and
their
caretakers
who
are
feeling
the
direct
impact
of
the
system’s
eminent
collapse.
“The
emotional
power
of
this
report
cannot
be
understated”
Paul
A.
Kawata,
Executive
Director
of
NMAC
says.
“We
hope
everyone
will
read
this
monograph
and
contact
their
Congressperson
to
take
action.”
NMAC,
under
the
leadership
of
James
Albino,
the
agency's
Government
Relations
and
Public
Policy
Manager,
and
in
collaboration
with
local
HIV/AIDS
agencies
in
Puerto
Rico
and
mainland
advocacy
organizations,
including
the
Latino
Commission
on
AIDS,
collected
first-hand
stories
about
the
island's
HIV/AIDS
crisis.
Albino,
a
former
executive
director
of
an
HIV/AIDS
hospice
center
in
PR,
visited
patients
and
care
givers
throughout
the
island's
HIV/AIDS
community,
hearing
their
concerns
and
collecting
the
pictures
used
in
this
report.
"Mismanagement
and
corruption
among
HIV/AIDS
officials
in
PR
unfortunately
is
nothing
new,"
says
Albino.
"The
Federal
Bureau
of
Investigation,
Office
of
the
Inspector
General
and
International
Revenue
Service
raided
the
San
Juan
Eligible
Metropolitan
Area
Offices,
in
summer
2005,
due
to
allegations
of
graft.
That
pales
to
the
current
situation.
PR's
HIV/AIDS
organizations
never
received
their
funding,
forcing
many
of
them
to
close
their
doors,
layoff
staff
and/or
curtail
their
services,"
Albino
explains.
In
summer
2006,
the
State
Department
of
Health
had
instructed
some
clinics
to
stop
accepting
new
patients
for
AIDS
Drug
Assistance
Program,
and
the
San
Juan
Municipal
Health
Department
had
tried,
unsuccessfully,
to
transfer
over
1,500
ADAP
participants
to
the
state
program.
By
November,
