The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on STI/HIV testing among adolescents in a large pediatric primary care network.

ABSTRACT Disruptions in STI testing infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic threaten to impact STI service delivery for adolescents. Within a large pediatric primary care network, we compared STI testing encounters between the pandemic period and an analogous pre-pandemic period. STI test counts decreased and test positivity increased during the pandemic period.

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