Because there was so much focus on fighting the pandemic, HIV testing and access to treatment were all halted for some time.
The numbers are concerning. HIV testing dropped by 97% at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"If they are not getting HIV tested, learning their HIV status, whether positive or negative, we see that that impact -- the way we treat and care for the whole person," said Shanell McGoy of Gilead Sciences.RELATED: "The challenges resulted in less testing, a setback for us getting to zero cases and we're trying to pick it up," said Vincent Crisostomo of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation."We have been seeing quite a few patients in the hospital coming in with late-stage AIDS who never got diagnosed, so this is a very important time to bring up testing. Testing is so critical in HIV," said Gandhi.
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