{"id":3277,"date":"2021-01-15T21:55:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T05:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2021-01-16T21:56:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T05:56:46","slug":"perceived-interruptions-to-hiv-prevention-and-treatment-services-associated-with-covid-19-for-gay-bisexual-and-other-men-who-have-sex-with-men-in-20-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/15\/perceived-interruptions-to-hiv-prevention-and-treatment-services-associated-with-covid-19-for-gay-bisexual-and-other-men-who-have-sex-with-men-in-20-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Perceived Interruptions to HIV Prevention and Treatment Services Associated with COVID-19 for Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men in 20 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More stringent pandemic control responses were correlated with decreased perceived access to HIV prevention and treatment services in a study of 10,654 men who have sex with men from 20 countries. For every ten-point increase in stringency, assessed with the Oxford Government Response Tracker Stringency Index, there was a 3% reduction in the prevalence of perceived access to in-person testing, a 6% reduction in access to self-testing, and a 5% reduction in access to pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV (PrEP).<\/p>\n<p><i>Rao et al. (Jan 13, 2021). Perceived Interruptions to HIV Prevention and Treatment Services Associated with COVID-19 for Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men in 20 Countries. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/QAI.0000000000002620\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/QAI.0000000000002620<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More stringent pandemic control responses were correlated with decreased perceived access to HIV prevention and treatment services in a study of 10,654 men who have sex with men from 20 countries. For every ten-point increase in stringency, assessed with the Oxford Government Response Tracker Stringency Index, there was a 3% reduction in the prevalence of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/15\/perceived-interruptions-to-hiv-prevention-and-treatment-services-associated-with-covid-19-for-gay-bisexual-and-other-men-who-have-sex-with-men-in-20-countries\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42,131],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","tag-hiv","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}