ArticleFrontiers in reproductive health2023
Temporary changes in STI & HIV testing & diagnoses across different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chicago IL.
Article in Frontiers in reproductive health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Access and Utilization of HIV/STI Testing Services among Men Who have Sex with Men During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Pooled it
- Characterizing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV testing among Medicaid beneficiaries.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on family planning and sexual transmitted infection services in Thailand: results from WHO survey.Reproductive health · 2025Article
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- Impact of Pandemic-Induced Service Disruptions and Behavioral Changes on Hepatitis C Virus and HIV Transmission Amongst People Who Inject Drugs: A Modeling Study.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Social determinants of health are associated with low uptake of daily HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and future uptake of long-acting formats: a survey of Black and Latina/x/e transfeminine adults in Chicago.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on HIV Testing, Recent Infections, and Annualized Incidence Among Cisgender Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women in Brazil.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2025Article
- Bacterial vaginosis testing gaps for transmasculine patients may exacerbate health disparities.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2024Article
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Abstract
Introduction: While the U.S. has seen a sustained rise in STI cases over the past decade, the impact of the COVID-19 on STIs and HIV is unclear. Methods: To examine the short- and medium-term impacts of COVID-19 and HIV and STI testing and diagnosis, we compared pre-pandemic trends to three periods of the pandemic: early- pandemic, March-May 2020; mid-pandemic June 2020-May 2021; and late-pandemic, June 2021-May 2022. We compared average number of monthly tests and diagnoses, overall and by gender, as well as the monthly change (slope) in testing and diagnoses. Results: We find that after decreases in average monthly STI and HIV testing and diagnoses during the early- and mid-pandemic, cases were largely back to pre-pandemic levels by the late-pandemic, with some variation by gender. Conclusion: Changes in testing and diagnoses varied by phase of the pandemic. Some key populations may require additional outreach efforts to attain pre-pandemic testing levels.
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