THE IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC CAUSED BY COVID-19 ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STATE OF HIV INFECTION IN UKRAINE

HIV infection is a human disease with progressive dysfunction of the body's immune system and long asymptomatic course. In 2021, there were 42 million HIV-positive people in world. Today, 341,084 infected are officially registered Ukraine. One one hundred citizens aged 15 to 50 carrier retrovirus. 2019, World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed beginning pandemic new infectious caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus. The report Global Fund Fight AIDS data International Charitable Foundation "Public Alliance" («Альянс громадського здоров’я») state that COVID-19 can seriously disrupt health care as well medical services providing HIV-infected many countries. Objective. To study impact on current epidemic case registration Materials methods. complete tasks, statistical epidemiological WHO Ministry Ukraine during 2017–2021 2020–2021 used. results studies processed help method variation statistics using computer programs Microsoft Office Excel 2010, SPSS Statistics online calculator (http://medstatistic/calculators/calchit.html). Results discussion. provided WHO, status analyzed. has negatively affected provision diagnostic, preventive curative people. This decrease number rapid tests for retrovirus 2020 4.1 times compared 2019. reduction cases HIV, mortality from terminal occurred an average 1.5–2.4 period before coronavirus. These simultaneously correlated increase cases, coronavirus, inversely proportional. will significantly incidence raise deaths. Conclusions. prophylactic treatment There proportional trend between COVID-19. occured autumn–winter period, which corresponded declining levels diagnosis.