Resilience of the Hiv Cohort in Romania in the Context Of Covid 19
Resilience of the Hiv Cohort in Romania in the Context Of Covid 19

Summary/Abstract: At the end of the early 90s, Romania reported to the World Health Organization over 600 cases of pediatric HIV-AIDS. If at first the diagnosed cases were represented by children from the medical-social protection system (orphanages, care centres, hospitals), later the positive tests, respectively the multiplication of pediatric HIV-AIDS cases, extended to children from seronegative families (both parents and siblings were seronegative). Thus, the hypothesis of nosocomial transmission of the infection was launched, with over 11,000 cases reported in the period 1990-2000. In Romania, on December 31, 2024, there were 18,768 patients diagnosed with HIV-AIDS. Currently, at the European level, our country exhibits a particularity among the seropositive population due to the cases of pediatric intra-hospital HIV infection in the last 3 years of the communist period and immediately after the end of this regime. Thus, over 5500 people affected by this disease are long-term survivors, having been diagnosed over 35 years ago. Resilience among people living with HIV (PLHIV) is also essential for the sustained adoption of HIV medical services in order to improve the biological, psychological and social health of patients. The context caused by the COVID19 pandemic has negatively influenced the resilience of PLHIV in managing their health status both physically and emotionally.

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