26.02.2026
The latest report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) summarises 2024 data from 29 EU/EEA countries on STI prevention and control, structured around enabling environment, prevention, testing and treatment, and aligned with the 2025 interim targets of the WHO Regional Office for Europe Action Plan 2022–2030.
Importantly, the analysis draws on findings from EMIS-2024. By integrating community-reported behavioural data with national monitoring indicators and surveillance systems such as European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme, the report strengthens the evidence base for scientists, public health professionals and community stakeholders working to advance STI prevention across Europe.
11.12.2025
Chemsex—the intentional use of psychoactive stimulant substances to enhance and prolong sexualised social encounters—has emerged as a significant public health issue in recent years. AIDS service organisations have responded with targeted support services, alongside training for counselling, peer support, and self-help. Effective planning of health interventions requires robust estimates of how many people experience health impairments related to substance use in sexual settings, as these figures directly inform resource allocation across prevention, counselling, self-help, and therapeutic care. Drawing on data from EMIS-2024 and population estimates, this analysis maps the prevalence of chemsex-related behaviours across Germany, differentiated by federal states and selected major cities. The findings indicate a substantial gap between existing services and likely needs, pointing to marked underprovision. Expanded and innovative, stigma-reducing approaches are required to improve access and reduce harm [article in German].
24.07.2025
EMIS-2024 Design and Methods Paper Now Available as a Preprint
We are pleased to share the preprint of our EMIS-2024 Methods Paper. This detailed document offers valuable insights for funders and partners working with national EMIS data, helping to better understand the design and implementation of EMIS-2024.
26.06.2025
The First EMIS-2024 Community Report Is Here – Will Be Made Available in 33 Languages!
We’re excited to announce the release of the first EMIS-2024 Community Report, specially created for survey participants and the wider MSM, trans, and non-binary communities. Thanks to the dedicated efforts of our partners and translators, the report is now being made accessible in 33 languages. Dive in and explore some key findings.
18.03.2025
EMIS released 34 indicators through the ECDC for the 2024 Dublin Declaration Monitoring (DDM) report. These indicators apply to MSM (both cis and trans) and individuals assigned male at birth who identify as nonbinary. All indicators are stratified by age group (<25, 25+), with three further stratified by HIV diagnosis. This release occurred ahead of the official data publication to collaborating partners to meet DDM deadlines. As requested in the DDM forms, we provide numerator and denominator counts, along with percentages when the denominator includes at least 20 cases.
14.02.2025
50,330 Respondents
EMIS-2024 recruitment closed on June 30, 2024. It took until February 2025 to merge 35 language versions, process, and clean the data. After cleaning, there are 50,330 respondents with valid data.
This number includes 2,658 individuals who identified as part of the trans community, the highest number recorded across all EMIS waves.
The EMIS-2024 variable manual is now available under publications. We are currently drafting the methods paper, which we hope to have available by summer, and the European Report. National funders will receive the Data Transfer Agreement for their respective national data subsets by the end of February for review and signature. Network members will be notified once the EMIS-2024 Scientific Board is established and data requests are ready to be processed.
25.06.2024
EMIS is still open until 30 June, so keep up the recruitment work!
We are all getting ready for the end of the recruitment period, when a lot of the background work starts: data cleaning, the first analyses, the drafting of summary tables and reports. With a complex study like EMIS, these will be released over a period of several years.
14.06.2024
After several rounds of negotiations and sustained efforts, a round of announcements and ads were distributed on Hornet in Russia, Türkiye and Ukraine causing a measurable bump in the number of participants.
29.05.2024
Sustained advocacy efforts by a large coalition of community organisations yielded a successful campaign for recruitment on the dating app ROMEO across the entire EMIS region. The campaign resulted in several thousand new participants. As a token of our appreciation, EMIS have made a donation to the PlanetRomeo Foundation that helps community organisations mainly in the Sub-Sharan African region.
15.05.2024
Recruitment campaigns have been going strong in all countries of EMIS. Here are some more examples of what different organisations have been posting and publishing to reach even more participants.
The two campaigns organised with Grindr 4 Equality were particularly successful and yielded several thousand new participants.
11.03.2024
Some more examples from the different national campaigns. EMIS-2024 is a mammoth venture, so it doesn’t move fast. But when it moves, it rolls!
29.02.2024
EMIS-2024 is rolling out slowly but steadily. Here are a few examples from our community partners’ social media feeds.
26.02.2024
“So what is taking so long” – you ask, and you are quite right. Putting EMIS-2024 together was already a daunting task with near 50 different partners, 35 languages and 50 countries, and a complex funding structure that relies on contributions from an impressive consortium. However, rolling out EMIS-2024 to all the affected communities is even more challenging, and it does take time. We are trying to make sure that everyone in the groups concerned can have the chance to reply to the survey. This is why we will keep EMIS-2024 open at least until the end of April 2024.25.02.2024
19.02.2024
Most partner organisations across Europe have received their links to EMIS, and recruitment can start for real.
There is, however, a recurrent question regarding the survey: Can the participants go back in the survey if they want to correct a previous answer? This is not possible, unfortunately. The option of going back would involve collecting cookies from participants, which we cannot do for privacy reasons. The survey must remain completely anonymous, and so no identifiable cookies are allowed as these would be associated with the participant’s IP address.
15.02.2024
Finally! We are rolling out EMIS-2024 across Europe, starting with a comprehensive campaign in Germany. The invitation to participate will be shared on social media, in print media of interest for the target groups: gay and bisexual men who have sex with men, and trans persons. Follow this link for direct access to the survey:
12.02.2024
All visual identity materials for EMIS-2024 have been developed and are being compiled into a package that can be sent to the recruiting partners. The visual materials, snippets and other elements have been devised in a way that they can be combined and compiled by all participating partners in any way they like. Different language versions of the recruitment text and the tagline
09.02.2024
Plans for a national launch of EMIS-2024 in Germany are solidifying. Promotion and recruitment will start through the social media channels of Deutsche Aidshilfe, IWWIT, and Robert Koch Institute on Sunday, 18.02.2024. All partners from across Europe will be invited to share, repost and retweet posts from the German campaign, which will feature messages and the invitation to participate in German and English.