Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, STI treatment and prevention campaigns fell by the wayside
, with several provinces reporting a majority of cases in those 30 to 39 years old.
“The fallout is tremendous. We are seeing it now with increased cases across the country in various STIs,” said Gary Lacasse, Ottawa executive director of the Canadian AIDS Society.to deem sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections testing an essential service Today’s rising rates form part of an upward trend that spans more than two decades, Dr. McKay said. He pointed toas a major cause: More people are having unprotected sex, he said, because of lowered anxieties about HIV since the advent of prevention medications such as PrEP. Today, HIV is widely viewed as “a chronic infection, not a death sentence,” he added, thanks to anti-retroviral treatments that can make the infection untransmittable.
During the pandemic, some who chose to have fewer sexual partners or just one partner assumed they were safe and stopped using condoms, he said. This amounted to a false sense of security: “It’s riskier to have unprotected sex with one partner who has an STI than it is to have multiple partners who may have an STI, if you’re using condoms.”Of health care providers66 per cent reported dwindling demand in the first months of the pandemic.
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