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01-09-2020 | Care | Notes From The Field

COVID-19 Pandemic Disrupts HIV Continuum of Care and Prevention: Implications for Research and Practice Concerning Community-Based Organizations and Frontline Providers

Authors: Rogério M. Pinto, Sunggeun Park

Published in: AIDS and Behavior | Issue 9/2020

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More quickly and more vividly than they could have anticipated, people living with (PLWH) and those at-risk for HIV felt the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, as they were asked to shelter in place and distance themselves from others. Over the months of March and April 2020, around the time shelter-in-place orders accelerated, community-based organizations (CBOs) have closed, medical offices have cut hours, and medical personnel have shifted from primary care to COVID-19 hospital units. We assess the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the HIV Continuum of Care and Prevention—that is, testing, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and primary care—and propose a course of action so that we may end the HIV epidemic in this decade. …

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Title: COVID-19 Pandemic Disrupts HIV Continuum of Care and Prevention: Implications for Research and Practice Concerning Community-Based Organizations and Frontline Providers
Authors: Rogério M. Pinto
Sunggeun Park
Publication date: 01-09-2020
Publisher: Springer US
Keywords: Care
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
COVID-19
Published in: AIDS and Behavior / Issue 9/2020
Print ISSN: 1090-7165
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3254
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-020-02893-3

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