Increasing and sustaining blood-borne virus screening in Spain and Portugal throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-center quality improvement intervention

Increasing and sustaining blood-borne virus screening in Spain and Portugal throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-center quality improvement intervention

BackgroundAround 57,000 people in Spain and Portugal currently living with HIV or chronic hepatitis C are unaware of their infection. The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted screening efforts for these infections. We designed an intervention to increase and sustain opportunistic blood-borne virus (...

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Main Authors: Inês Vaz-Pinto, Enrique Ortega, Ivan Chivite, María Butí, Juan Turnes-Vázquez, Vítor Magno-Pereira, Miguel Rocha, Jorge Garrido, Catarina Esteves-Santos, Mafalda Guimaraes, Tomás Mourão, María Martínez Roma, Vanessa Guilera, Jordi Llaneras-Artigues, Ana Barreira-Díaz, Santiago Pérez Cachafeiro, Sandra Daponte Angueira, Elisa Xavier, Mariana Vicente, Gema Garrido, Maria Teresa Heredia, Diogo Medina, Miguel García Deltoro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
blood borne viruses
screening
linkage to care (LTC)
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
HVB
HCV (hepatitis C)
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1268888/full

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