Characterizing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV testing among Medicaid beneficiaries
The pandemic significantly impacted the testing uptake among young male beneficiaries, highlighting the need for innovative strategies to improve HIV testing uptake in this demographic, restoring it to pre-pandemic levels or better.
Authors
- Maylin Palatino
- Karine Yenokyan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6835-9405)
- Jacqueline E. Rudolph (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7177-1847)
- Xiaoqiang Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1319-1646)
- YiYi Zhou
- Bryan Lau
- Eryka Wentz
- Corinne E. Joshu
- Gregory M Lucas
- Keri Calkins
Institutions
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (US)
- Mathematica Policy Research (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- medRxiv
- Published
- 2026-02-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.12.26346199
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases