INTRODUCTION: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has limited the access of patients with Hansen's disease (HD) to care due to changes in routine health services.
METHODS: To ascertain this, we compared the number of HD cases diagnosed before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
RESULTS: The decrease in HD cases in Brazil reached 18,223 (-48.4%), corresponding to an average reduction of 1,518 cases per month during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CONCLUSION: Therefore, effective measures should be implemented to minimize the damage and the consequent negative health impact of COVID-19 on the care of HD patients.
BT - Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical C1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34320132 DA - 01/2021 DO - 10.1590/0037-8682-0251-2021 J2 - Rev Soc Bras Med Trop LA - eng N2 -INTRODUCTION: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has limited the access of patients with Hansen's disease (HD) to care due to changes in routine health services.
METHODS: To ascertain this, we compared the number of HD cases diagnosed before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
RESULTS: The decrease in HD cases in Brazil reached 18,223 (-48.4%), corresponding to an average reduction of 1,518 cases per month during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CONCLUSION: Therefore, effective measures should be implemented to minimize the damage and the consequent negative health impact of COVID-19 on the care of HD patients.
PY - 2021 EP - e02512021 T2 - Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical TI - Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 on the diagnoses of Hansen's disease in Brazil. UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8313100/pdf/1678-9849-rsbmt-54-e0251-2021.pdf VL - 54 SN - 1678-9849 ER -