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Maintaining HIV care during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Due to COVID-19, testing, diagnosis, and care for HIV patients is in a limbo
- HIV patients should use extra care when it comes to social distancing, quarantine, and community containment measure
- Initiation of antiviral therapies for HIV at hospitals are also at risk due to HIV infected patients limited access to hospitals because of COVID-19 measures
- Continuation of antiviral therapies for HIV are also hindered due to lockdowns which force HIV patients to stay home when they need to go to a hospital for treatment
- In response to these challenges, several disease organizations have put in measures such as mail in orders or local smaller facility contained antiviral therapy treatment, limiting HIV patients to those who may have COVID-19
- Antiviral therapies related to HIV in some countries have also been lowered in price or even made free so that HIV patients may be able to continue their treatment
- These solutions are only really temporary and there needs to be a more permanent solution put in place for these high risk patients
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Updated 2020-08-12
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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)
Biomedical Sciences