HIV diagnoses among people born in Ukraine reported by EU/EEA countries in 2022: impact on regional HIV trends and implications for healthcare planning-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

HIV diagnoses among people born in Ukraine reported by EU/EEA countries in 2022: impact on regional HIV trends and implications for healthcare planning

Published:2023-11-30 Issue:48 Volume:28 Page:
ISSN:1560-7917
Container-title:Eurosurveillance
language:en
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Author:

Reyes-Urueña Juliana¹^ORCID,Marrone Gaetano¹,Noori Teymur¹,Kuchukhidze Giorgi²,Martsynovska Violetta³,Hetman Larysa³,Basenko Anton⁴⁵,Bivol Stela²,van der Werf Marieke J¹,Pharris Anastasia¹,

Affiliation:

1. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

2. World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe), Copenhagen, Denmark

3. HIV Diagnosis and Treatment Programs of Public Health Center, Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

4. International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD), European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG), Kyiv, Ukraine

5. Alliance for Public Health (APH), Ukraine Cabinet of Ministers’ National Council on HIV/TB (CCM Ukraine), Kyiv, Ukraine

Abstract

Following Russia’s invasion in 2022, over 4.1 million Ukrainians sought refuge in the EU/EEA. We assessed how this impacted HIV case reporting by EU/EEA countries. Ukrainian refugees constituted 10.2% (n = 2,338) of all 2022 HIV diagnoses, a 10-fold increase from 2021. Of these, 9.3% (n = 217) were new diagnoses, 58.5% (n = 1,368) were previously identified; 32.2% had unknown status. Displacement of Ukrainians has partly contributed to increasing HIV diagnoses in EU/EEA countries in 2022, highlighting the importance of prevention, testing and care.

Publisher

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

Subject

Virology,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Epidemiology

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