Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on retention in care of native and migrant people with HIV in the ICONA cohort

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BACKGROUND: COVID-19 pandemic challenged the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets. How the COVID-19 pandemic affected HIV retention in care and whether it has disproportionally affected migrant people with HIV (PWH) remained to be investigated.

METHODS: PWH in ICONA Cohort in follow-up in each of the study periods were included: 01/09/2019-29/02/2020 (pandemic period) and 01/03/2018-31/08/2018 (historical period, as a control). Risk of temporary loss to follow-up (LTFU, defined as no data recorded for a person for one year) was analyzed by logistic regression, with migrant status as the main exposure variable. Difference in difference (DID) analysis was applied to evaluate the effect of COVID-19 pandemic in the different risk of LTFU between natives and migrants.

RESULTS: 8864 (17.1% migrants) and 8071 (16.8% migrants) PWH constituted the pandemic and the historical period population, respectively. Proportion of PWH defined as LTFU in the pandemic period was 10.5% in native and 19.6% in migrant PWH. After controlling for age, sex and geographical location of enrolling site, risk of temporary LTFU was higher for migrants than native PWH [adjusted odds ratio 1.85 (95%CI 1.54-2.22)] in pandemic period. In PWH contributing to both periods, LTFU was 9.0% (95% CI 8.3-9.8) in natives vs 17.0% (95% CI 14.7-19.4) in migrants during the pandemic. Instead, LTFU was 1.2% (95%CI 0.9, 1.5) in natives vs 2.2% (95% CI 1.3-3.1) in migrants during the historical period, with a resulting DID of 7.0% (95% CI 4.4-9.6).

CONCLUSIONS: A greater proportion of LTFU in migrant PWH was observed in both periods, which remained unaltered over time. Interventions to reduce LTFU of migrants are necessary.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:58

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Travel medicine and infectious disease - 58(2024) vom: 15. März, Seite 102691

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gagliardini, Roberta [VerfasserIn]
Giacomelli, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Bozzi, Giorgio [VerfasserIn]
D'Arminio Monforte, Antonella [VerfasserIn]
Tavelli, Alessandro [VerfasserIn]
Mazzotta, Valentina [VerfasserIn]
Bruzzesi, Elena [VerfasserIn]
Cervo, Adriana [VerfasserIn]
Saracino, Annalisa [VerfasserIn]
Mussini, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Girardi, Enrico [VerfasserIn]
Cozzi-Lepri, Alessandro [VerfasserIn]
Antinori, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
ICONA Foundation study group [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Loss to follow-up
Retention in care
SARS-CoV-2

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Date Completed 18.03.2024

Date Revised 18.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.tmaid.2024.102691

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NLM368258254