Declines in HIV Testing With COVID 19

With the spread of COVID 19 around the world, serious problems have also been identified regarding public testing for AIDS On August 15 2020 the AIDS Trends Committee of Japan Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced that the number of AIDS virus ( tests from April to June 2020 was 9584 which is about a quarter of the same period of 2019 It is possible that the reason for the significant decrease in the number of tests is that due to the expansion of COVID 19 some health centers have stopped the tests and the number of people refraining from seeing doctors has increased The number 11 689 of consultations regarding AIDS in 2020 has also decreased to about one third of the same period of 2019.

The AIDS Trends Committee of Japan Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has issued a public call that people suspected of being infected with HIV should be actively tested Unless this situation is improved immediately, it is expected that the number of patients with AIDS will increase worldwide. JAMA  published on October by Kyoto@Takuma H