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ArticleAIDS and behavior2023

Home Care Assistance: Has Covid-19 had an Impact on the Complex Management of HIV Patients?

Alex Dusina, Francesca Lombardi, Enrica Tamburrini, Fiorella Onorati, Massimo Petrucci, Simona Di Giambenedetto

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Article in AIDS and behavior, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alex DusinaFondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, UOC Malattie Infettive, 00168, Rome, Italy.
Francesca LombardiFondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, UOC Malattie Infettive, 00168, Rome, Italy. francesca.lombardi@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5757-8346
Enrica TamburriniFondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, UOC Malattie Infettive, 00168, Rome, Italy.
Fiorella OnoratiFondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, UOC Malattie Infettive, 00168, Rome, Italy.
Massimo PetrucciFondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, UOC Malattie Infettive, 00168, Rome, Italy.
Simona Di GiambenedettoFondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, UOC Malattie Infettive, 00168, Rome, Italy.
Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic · ITUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During the COVID-19 pandemic, people living with HIV (PLWH) could have had to face problems with treatment adherence because of the difficulty of accessing services connected with antiretroviral therapy (ART) dispensation, which could have undermined their health. In this article, we described, over the period 2015-2020, both the activities of our home care assistance unit, the "Unità di Trattamento Domiciliare (UTD)", and the characteristics of the comorbid HIV patients followed-up. To determine whether the COVID-19 pandemic affected this service, we compared the number/type of services provided in 2020 with those provided in the preceding 5 years, i.e., 2015-2019. We also compared the proportion of monthly interventions carried out in 2018, 2019 and 2020. We found comparable values with some differences in the types of performances due to the heterogeneity of the population and their medical assistance needs. We also observed a stable viro-immunological status of the patients. All of these data suggest that the UTD was consistently active during the lockdown months and pandemic waves preventing therapy discontinuation, and was able to maintain optimal control of patients' HIV infections.

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COVID-19HIV InfectionsHome Care ServicesCommunicable Disease ControlHumansPandemicsantiretroviral therapyCOVID-19HIVhome care assistanceSARS-CoV-2

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PMID36156175
PMCPMC9511459
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