From the Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division.
Quest Diagnostics, Secaucus, NJ.
Sex Transm Dis. 2023 Aug 1;50(8):543-549. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001817. Epub 2023 Apr 17.
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing accessibility. We sought to assess the longer-term impacts of COVID-19 on HIV and STI testing and diagnosis in Oregon. METHODS: First, we examined HIV, Neisseria gonorrhoeae / Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), and syphilis tests conducted at the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory (public sector) and a large commercial laboratory (private sector) and HIV, N. gonorrhoeae , CT, and primary and secondary (P&S) syphilis diagnoses in Oregon from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2021. We compared monthly testing and diagnosis rates in 5 prespecified periods: pre-COVID-19 (January 2019-February 2020), stay-at-home order (March 2020-May 2020), reopening (June 2020-December 2020), vaccine availability (January 2021-June 2021), and Delta/early Omicron spread (July 2021-December 2021). Second, we calculated the number of HIV and STI diagnoses per test in the public and private sectors. Finally, we used seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average models to predict expected HIV and STI diagnoses for comparison to those observed. RESULTS: Both public and private sector HIV and bacterial STI testing fell to nadirs in April 2020 with incomplete recovery to 2019 levels by the close of 2021. Compared with pre-COVID-19, public sector and private sector testing was significantly lower in all subsequent periods. Compared with pre-COVID-19, P&S syphilis cases were 52%, 75%, and 124% greater in the reopening, vaccine availability, and Delta/early Omicron periods, respectively. From March 2020 to December 2021, we observed an excess of P&S syphilis cases (+37.1%; 95% confidence interval, 22.2% to 52.1%) and a deficit in CT cases (-10.7%; 95% confidence interval, -15.4% to -6.0%). CONCLUSIONS: By December 2021, HIV/STI testing had not recovered to pre-COVID-19 levels, and HIV/STI continues to be underdiagnosed. Despite decreased testing, P&S syphilis cases have increased substantially.
背景:COVID-19 大流行扰乱了艾滋病毒和性传播感染(STI)检测的可及性。我们试图评估 COVID-19 对俄勒冈州艾滋病毒和性传播感染检测和诊断的长期影响。
方法:首先,我们检查了 2019 年 1 月 1 日至 2021 年 12 月 31 日在俄勒冈州公共卫生实验室(公共部门)和一家大型商业实验室(私营部门)进行的艾滋病毒、淋病奈瑟菌/沙眼衣原体(CT)和梅毒检测,以及艾滋病毒、淋病奈瑟菌、CT 和原发性和继发性(P&S)梅毒诊断。我们比较了五个预先指定时间段的每月检测和诊断率:COVID-19 前(2019 年 1 月至 2 月)、居家令(2020 年 3 月至 5 月)、重新开放(2020 年 6 月至 12 月)、疫苗供应(2021 年 1 月至 6 月)和 Delta/早期奥密克戎传播(2021 年 7 月至 12 月)。其次,我们计算了公共和私营部门每检测一次 HIV 和性传播感染的数量。最后,我们使用季节性自回归综合移动平均模型来预测预期的 HIV 和性传播感染诊断,以与观察到的诊断进行比较。
结果:公共和私营部门的艾滋病毒和细菌性 STI 检测均在 2020 年 4 月降至最低点,到 2021 年底尚未完全恢复到 2019 年的水平。与 COVID-19 前相比,公共和私营部门在所有后续时期的检测均明显较低。与 COVID-19 前相比,重新开放、疫苗供应和 Delta/早期 Omicron 期间的 P&S 梅毒病例分别增加了 52%、75%和 124%。从 2020 年 3 月到 2021 年 12 月,我们观察到 P&S 梅毒病例增加了 37.1%(95%置信区间,22.2%至 52.1%),而 CT 病例减少了 10.7%(95%置信区间,15.4%至 6.0%)。
结论:截至 2021 年 12 月,艾滋病毒/性传播感染检测尚未恢复到 COVID-19 前的水平,艾滋病毒/性传播感染继续漏诊。尽管检测量有所下降,但 P&S 梅毒病例大幅增加。
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