If lockdowns and stay-at-home orders are succeeding in slowing the spread of the coronavirus, health experts warn that the measures could unintentionally undermine efforts to contain another potentially deadly disease: HIV.

Travis Sanchez, an epidemiologist at Emory University revealed that a quarter of the 1,000 men he surveyed said they had experienced problems getting tested for sexually transmitted diseases, because thousands of centres that used to provide them have closed down.

That means that those people still having sex have no idea about their status, which Sanchez warned is a potential ticking bomb.

Read the full AFP story here.

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