Risk of Increasing the Sudden Diagnosis of AIDS in Japan during and after the COVID-19 Outbreak

Public health centers have played an important role in controlling the spread of COVID-19 in Japan. However, the staff members of 469 centers have been overwhelmed by the huge increase in workload, and some public health centers were obliged to temporarily stop regular HIV testing. With the halting...

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Autores principales: Jimba, Masamine, Suzuki, Motofumi, Kitamura, Tadaichi, Carandang, Rogie Royce, Sieber, Nancy L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Japan Medical Association 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8824769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35224268
http://dx.doi.org/10.31662/jmaj.2021-0174
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Suzuki, Motofumi
Kitamura, Tadaichi
Carandang, Rogie Royce
Sieber, Nancy L
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description Public health centers have played an important role in controlling the spread of COVID-19 in Japan. However, the staff members of 469 centers have been overwhelmed by the huge increase in workload, and some public health centers were obliged to temporarily stop regular HIV testing. With the halting of HIV testing during the COVID-19 crisis, the proportion of “Ikinari-AIDS” or a sudden diagnosis of AIDS without prior knowledge of the HIV infection status is expected to rise. To provide essential public health services, it is time for Japan to focus on delivering public health services beyond the existing public health centers.
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spelling pubmed-88247692022-02-25 Risk of Increasing the Sudden Diagnosis of AIDS in Japan during and after the COVID-19 Outbreak Jimba, Masamine Suzuki, Motofumi Kitamura, Tadaichi Carandang, Rogie Royce Sieber, Nancy L JMA J Opinion Public health centers have played an important role in controlling the spread of COVID-19 in Japan. However, the staff members of 469 centers have been overwhelmed by the huge increase in workload, and some public health centers were obliged to temporarily stop regular HIV testing. With the halting of HIV testing during the COVID-19 crisis, the proportion of “Ikinari-AIDS” or a sudden diagnosis of AIDS without prior knowledge of the HIV infection status is expected to rise. To provide essential public health services, it is time for Japan to focus on delivering public health services beyond the existing public health centers. Japan Medical Association 2021-12-24 2022-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8824769/ /pubmed/35224268 http://dx.doi.org/10.31662/jmaj.2021-0174 Text en Copyright © Japan Medical Association https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/JMA Journal is an Open Access journal distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ).
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Risk of Increasing the Sudden Diagnosis of AIDS in Japan during and after the COVID-19 Outbreak
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35224268
http://dx.doi.org/10.31662/jmaj.2021-0174
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