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HIV Testing Disruptions and Service Adaptations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Literature Review.
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- Impact of COVID-19 on Utilization of Healthcare Services Among People Living with HIV (PLHIV): A Systematic Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Pooled it
- Remote training of behavioral intervention facilitators: model development and lessons learned.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Trial
- Epidemiological Profile, Spatial Dynamics, and Survival Outcomes of HIV/AIDS Patients in Brazil (2014-2024): A Nationwide Study of AIDS-stage Notification and Mortality.Journal of community health · 2026Article
- Trends and disparities in HIV before and after COVID-19 from 1999 to 2023.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Review
- New HIV diagnoses and risk factors for late HIV diagnosis, Finland, 2008-2023.Epidemiology and infection · 2026Article
- COVID-19 Knowledge, Anxiety, and Access to Voluntary Counseling and Testing Among People With HIV During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional Study.Asian/Pacific Island nursing journal · 2026Article
- Trends and Disruptions in Antiretroviral Treatment Enrollment in Haiti, 2018-2024.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2026Article
- Supporting long-term engagement in HIV clinical care: Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic.HIV medicine · 2026Article
- Racial, ethnic, and regional disparities in HIV testing during the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA: a nationwide, retrospective, observational study using National Clinical Cohort Collaborative data.The lancet. HIV · 2026Observational
- Characterizing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV testing among Medicaid beneficiaries.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Implementing voluntary counselling and testing services among university students in Mozambique: a mixed methods process evaluation.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Challenges in HIV care at a tertiary hospital repurposed for COVID-19: an observational study (2019-2022).BMC infectious diseases · 2025Observational
- No time to wait: resilience as a cornerstone for primary health care across Latin America and the Caribbean, a World Bank-PAHO Lancet Regional Health Americas Commission.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Review
- The Ripple Effect of COVID-19: How Lockdown Regulations Shaped Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation Among People Living With HIV in Johannesburg.Nursing & health sciences · 2025Article
- A cross-sectional, retrospective study analyzing the impact of COVID-19 on surgical mortality in Johannesburg, South Africa.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Article
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- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV testing in Peru: an interrupted time series analysis from 2014 to 2022.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Rate estimation and trend analysis of new HIV infections among the international migrant population in Chile from 2013 to 2022.Journal of migration and health · 2025Article
- Health facility and contextual correlates of HIV test positivity: a multilevel model of routine programmatic data from Malawi.BMJ public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Access to treatment and care in safe clinical settings improves people's lives with HIV. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted vital HIV programs and services, increasing the risk of adverse health outcomes for people with HIV and HIV transmission rates in the community. This systematic literature review provides a meta-analysis of HIV testing disruptions and a synthesis of HIV/AIDS services adapted during COVID-19. We searched scholarly databases from 01 January 2020 to 30 June 2022 using key terms on HIV testing rates and services during the COVID-19 pandemic. The process of how the included articles were identified, selected, appraised, and synthesised was reported according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. We included 17 articles that reported changes in HIV testing during the COVID-19 pandemic and 22 that reported adaptations in HIV/AIDS services. We found that HIV testing decreased by 37% during the search period because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Service providers adopted novel strategies to support remote service delivery by expanding community antiretroviral therapy dispensing, setting up primary care outreach points, and instituting multi-month dispensing services to sustain client care. Therefore, service providers and policymakers should explore alternative strategies to increase HIV testing rates impacted by COVID-19 and leverage funding to continue providing the identified adapted services.
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