HIV care indicators during the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to pre-pandemic care patterns among people with HIV in North Carolina.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly altered the way HIV care was accessed and delivered. We sought to assess HIV care indicators during the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to pre-pandemic HIV care patterns in North Carolina. Using statewide HIV surveillance data and group-based trajectory models, we identified pre-pandemic HIV care trajectories in two partially overlapping populations: (1) newly HIV-diagnosed from March 2014 through February 2018, followed from diagnosis to pandemic start (March 1, 2020); and (2) previously HIV-diagnosed before March 2016, followed from March 2016 to pandemic start. We analyzed pandemic-period HIV care indicators in both populations. In newly diagnosed persons, pre-pandemic HIV care attendance trajectories comprised "consistently high," "slowly fluctuating," "ste

SUBMITTER: Maierhofer CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12860448 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature