At the recent European AIDS Conference, Teymur Noori of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control remarked that one of the most severe impacts of the COVID pandemic on HIV was that it had reduced the capability of the vast majority of European countries to document their own HIV epidemic, as human resources were diverted from the monitoring and surveillance of HIV to that of COVID.
The report on HIV compiled by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA – formerly Public Heath England) bears witness to this situation. COVID has certainly had an impact on HIV testing, as reported at EACS; but how much it has impacted on ongoing transmission of HIV, late diagnoses and the heterosexual epidemic are very hard to gauge due to a reduction in the amount of data collected.
Read the full story at Aidsmap.
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