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Article History

Received: 22 July 2022

Accepted: 28 November 2022

First Online: 22 December 2022

Declarations

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: The European Men who Have Sex with Men Internet Survey 2017 (EMIS-2017) was a multi-language internet-based survey that reached participants reporting living in 50 different countries from 18 October 2017 to 31 January 2018. The EMIS-2017 study, including the data collection process, was led by a team of researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), University of London, with the Primary Investigator Peter Weatherburn. Ethical approval for the EMIS-2017 study, including data collection procedures, was obtained from the Observational Research Ethics Committee at the LSHTM (review reference 14421 /RR/8805). An important feature of this ethical approval was that local ethical approval was not required from the countries where online participants reported that they were living, given that it was a UK-based online survey. Participants gave informed written consent to participate in the study before taking part. For this study, Data Transfer Agreement was approved by LSHTM and RFSL.

: Not applicable.

: SC, MS, AME, KIP, TB, MJ, JJ, and SS declare no competing interests.