How Myanmar Is Working to Maintain Essential Services for People Living With HIV and Key Populations During the Covid-19 Pandemic.
J Int Assoc Provid AIDS Care
; 20: 23259582211017742, 2021.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1724379
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Maintaining essential HIV services has being a Global challenge during the COVID-19 crises. Myanmar has 54 million inhabitants. Neighbor of China, Thailand, India and Bangladesh it was impacted by COVID-19, but came up with a comprehensive and effective response, following WHO recommendations. The HIV Prevalence is 0.58% and it is concentrated among key population. A HIV Contingency Plan was developed to face this challenge.METHODOLOGY:
The programme-based cross-sectional descriptive study with analysis of routinely collected data from MoHS data system, between 2019 and 2020 was conducted, comparing first six months of 2019 and 2020.RESULTS:
HIV outreach activities and HIV testing were slightly affected after detection of first COVID-19 case, till mid May 2020. After that, outreach activities resumed. Introduction of HIV self-testing was initiated. 72% of more than 21,000 PWID on MMT were receiving take home dose up to 14 days and 60% of ART patients were receiving 6 months ARV dispensing.CONCLUSION:
Essential HIV services were maintained.Keywords
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
HIV Infections
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Community Health Services
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Observational study
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
J Int Assoc Provid AIDS Care
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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