11/30/2022
“It’s likely that reduced testing and extra demands due to the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical sectors and also on public health institutes did impact case detection in 2020 and 2021 and we do believe that this is still continuing even today,” ECDC HIV expert Anastasia Pharris told a news briefing on Wednesday.
The report used modelling to predict the number of estimated infections and compared that to testing data provided by 46 of the 53 countries in the WHO’s European region.
An estimated one in eight people living with HIV in that region remains undiagnosed, it found.
Disruptions to HIV testing during the pandemic matter because the longer the period of time between HIV infection and diagnosis, the higher the chances of severe illness or death, and the higher the likelihood that individuals unknowingly pass the virus to sexual partners, the report found.
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