The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and childhood vaccination services in Guinea: an interrupted time series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health-related indicator in Sub-Saharan Africa is limited. We aimed to assess the indirect effect of COVID-19 on essential health service and outcomes in Guinea.

Methods

In this interrupted time series analysis, we analysed a nationally surveillance data from January 2018 to December 2022 of nine indicators of HIV, malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and childhood vaccination. We fitted a Poisson segmented regression model accounting for seasonality to estimate the immediate impact of the COVID-19 on these outcomes as well as per-pandemic trend through incidence rate ratio (IRRs) with 95% CIs.

Results

Between January 2018 and December 2022, the month-to-month (quarter-to-quarter for TB) changes before COVID-19 outbreak inc

SUBMITTER: Diallo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12730812 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature