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

• Main Authors: Inês Vaz-Pinto (Author), Enrique Ortega (Author), Ivan Chivite (Author), María Butí (Author), Juan Turnes-Vázquez (Author), Vítor Magno-Pereira (Author), Miguel Rocha (Author), Jorge Garrido (Author), Catarina Esteves-Santos (Author), Mafalda Guimaraes (Author), Tomás Mourão (Author), María Martínez Roma (Author), Vanessa Guilera (Author), Jordi Llaneras-Artigues (Author), Ana Barreira-Díaz (Author), Santiago Pérez Cachafeiro (Author), Sandra Daponte Angueira (Author), Elisa Xavier (Author), Mariana Vicente (Author), Gema Garrido (Author), Maria Teresa Heredia (Author), Diogo Medina (Author), Miguel García Deltoro (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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 (...