Hill Brandon J, Anderson Brie, Lock Li
Planned Parenthood Great Plains, 4401 W 109th Street Suite 200, Overland Park, KS, 66211, USA.
The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
AIDS Behav. 2021 May;25(5):1361-1365. doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03195-y. Epub 2021 Feb 18.
The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to disrupt HIV prevention services. We conducted an electronic health record analysis of PrEP, HIV, and STI visits at eight sexual health clinics in Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma during the onset of the pandemic (March 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020) and compared the data with pre-pandemic (March 1, 2019 to June 30, 2019) volumes. Our data revealed a significant increase in the proportion of male PrEP visits during the pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic period, with the majority provided via telehealth/telePrEP. Overall, HIV and STI testing significantly decreased during the pandemic period.
新冠疫情有可能扰乱艾滋病毒预防服务。我们对阿肯色州、密苏里州和俄克拉何马州八家性健康诊所疫情暴发期间(2020年3月1日至2020年6月30日)的暴露前预防(PrEP)、艾滋病毒和性传播感染(STI)就诊情况进行了电子健康记录分析,并将数据与疫情前(2019年3月1日至2019年6月30日)的就诊量进行了比较。我们的数据显示,与疫情前相比,疫情期间男性PrEP就诊比例显著增加,其中大部分是通过远程医疗/远程PrEP提供的。总体而言,疫情期间艾滋病毒和性传播感染检测显著减少。