We would like to introduce you to Steve Letsike who has taken the role of Training Manager for Health4Men.
Plans are under way to commence training of healthcare workers in various provinces - Mpumalanga, Soweto and Bellville and Paarl in the Western Cape - to mention but a few.
Co-infection with hepatitis C increases the risk of death for patients with AIDS by 50%, according to the results of a large study published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. A fifth of these deaths were attributable to liver-related causes, five times the rate seen in people with AIDS who were not co-infected.
The investigators also found that a third of co-infected patients were unaware of their hepatitis C infection.
