Canada’s health care providers are warning that coronavirus shutdowns are negatively influencing another outbreak: sexually transmitted diseases
Heather Hale, executive director of Saskatoon Sexual Health, said her organization has been forced to cancel drop-in clinics, move appointments to the phone, stop classroom visits and shut down precautionary testing for STIs.Her province of Saskatchewan has the highest rate of HIV infections in Canada — more than twice the national average.
“Having access to STI testing will be important as people start to come out and start to widen those circles,” she said.last week by Statistics Canada said sales of “family planning products” such as condoms, contraceptives and lubricants soared by 30 percent in the second week of March and by 41 percent in the third week, compared to the same periods last year— right as Canadians were asked to stay home.
“They were all coming to get condoms, birth control, whatever they need to get and then we see a little bit of a lull because people are going to stay home. … I think that mentality of stocking up hit everybody hard — we saw it with toilet paper.”
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