OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Culture Health & Sexuality is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Structural and syndemic barriers to PrEP adoption among Black women at high risk for HIV: a qualitative exploration	37
#PrEP4Love: success and stigma following release of the first sex-positive PrEP public health campaign	30
Disclosure of PrEP use by young women in South Africa and Tanzania: qualitative findings from a demonstration project	29
‘… if U equals U what does the second U mean?’: sexual minority men’s accounts of HIV undetectability and untransmittable scepticism	26
Balancing the sexology scales: a content analysis of Black women’s sexuality research	25
Sexual health literacy among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men: a conceptual framework for future research	25
Improving menstrual equity in the USA: perspectives from trans and non-binary people assigned female at birth and health care providers	23
How do women and girls experience menstrual health interventions in low- and middle-income countries? Insights from a systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis	23
Intersex human rights, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex characteristics and the Yogyakarta Principles plus 10	22
Intersex: cultural and social perspectives	20
‘Somebody that looks like me’ matters: a qualitative study of black women’s preferences for receiving sexual health services in the USA	19
‘Defending the unborn’, ‘protecting women’ and ‘preserving culture and nation’: anti-abortion discourse in the Polish right-wing press	19
Towards a better understanding of abortion misinformation in the USA: a review of the literature	19
Towards an agency-based model of intersex, variations of sex characteristics (VSC) and DSD/dsd health	19
Qualitative accounts of PrEP discontinuation from the general population in Eswatini	18
Delaying, debating and declining motherhood	17
Transgender men’s fertility preservation: experiences, social support, and the quest for genetic parenthood	15
Obstetric violence in a group of Italian women: socio-demographic predictors and effects on mental health	15
Harms of third party criminalisation under end-demand legislation: undermining sex workers’ safety and rights	14
Affirming and negotiating gender in family and social spaces: Stigma, mental health and resilience among transmasculine people in India	14
An investigation of Jezebel stereotype awareness, gendered racial identity and sexual beliefs and behaviours among Black adult women	14
Female autonomy and intimate partner violence: findings from the Zimbabwe demographic and health survey, 2015	12
The sexualised use of cannabis among young sexual minority men: “I’m actually enjoying this for the first time”	12
Gender norms and sexual consent in dating relationships: a qualitative study of university students in Vietnam	12
Muscle dysmorphia: what about transgender people?	12

A sexual and reproductive empowerment framework to explore volitional sex in sub-Saharan Africa	11
Shared decision making for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with black transgender women	11
A “tax” on gender affirmation and safety: costs and benefits of intranational migration for transgender young adults in the San Francisco Bay area	11
Configuring the PrEP user: framing pre-exposure prophylaxis in UK newsprint 2012–2016	11
Explicitly racialised and extraordinarily over-represented: Black immigrant men in 25 years of news reports on HIV non-disclosure criminal cases in Canada	11
Experiences of gestational surrogacy for gay men in Canada	11
Mental health, coping and resilience among young men who have sex with men in Zambia	11
‘I don't want to get in trouble’: a study of how adults with intellectual disabilities convert and navigate intellectual disability sexual fields	11
‘I did not have sex outside of our bubble’: changes in sexual practices and risk reduction strategies among sexual minority men in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Women’s views on communication with health care providers about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention	11
Sexual attitudes and behaviours among Arab American young adults in the USA	10
Pathways of change: qualitative evaluations of intimate partner violence prevention programmes in Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa and Tajikistan	10
Reproductive coercion and abuse against women from minority ethnic backgrounds: views of service providers in Australia	10
‘It is stigma that makes my work dangerous’: experiences and consequences of disclosure, stigma and discrimination among sex workers in Western Australia	10
Social and emotional wellbeing of indigenous gender and sexuality diverse youth: mapping the evidence	10
‘There are no other options for us because of who we are’: employment and retention in care among gay and bisexual men and transgender women living with HIV in Guatemala	9
‘Being a good girl’: mother-daughter sexual communication in contemporary Vietnam	9
Sexual and reproductive health and rights for all in Southeast Asia: more than SDGs aspirations	8
‘Direct’ and ‘instant’: the role of digital technology and social media in young Filipinos’ intimate relationships	8
‘I trap her with a CD, then tomorrow find her with a big old man who bought her a smart phone’. Constructions of masculinities and transactional sex: a qualitative study from North-Western Tanzania	8
PrEP uptake as a social movement among gay and bisexual men	8
‘Chinese academia wouldn’t be tolerant of my research’: gay academics’ concerns about conducting queer research in China	8
‘I miss being honest’: sex workers’ accounts of silence and disclosure with health care providers in Ireland	8
How current and potential pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) users experience, negotiate and manage stigma: disclosures and backstage processes in online discourse	8
‘PrEP is like an adult using floaties’: meanings and new identities of PrEP among a niche sample of gay men	8
Peer victimisation and depression among gender conforming and non-conforming Thai adolescents	8
A preliminary model of health regarding sexual and ethnic minority older adults	8
“I did not know I was gay”: sexual identity development and fluidity among married tongzhi in China	8
Exploring young Black gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men’s PrEP knowledge in Toronto, Ontario, Canada	7
Moral practices shaping HIV disclosure among young gay and bisexual men living with HIV in the context of biomedical advance	7
Mental health and gender transitioning among hijra individuals: a qualitative approach using the minority stress model	7
The grip of pandemic mononormativity in Austria and Germany	7
‘Safe sex’: evaluation of sex education and sexual risk by young adults in Sydney	7
‘No test, no disease’: Multilevel barriers to HIV testing among young men who have sex with men and transgender women in three semi-urban areas in Thailand	7
“I feel empowered”: women’s perspectives on and experiences with long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy in the USA and Spain	7
Do parents really know best? Informed consent to sex assigning and ‘normalising’ treatment of minors with variations of sex characteristics	7
Social service responses to human trafficking: the making of a public health problem	6
Desiring intimacy and building community: young, gay and living with HIV in the time of PrEP	6
Navigating trans visibilities, trauma and trust in a new cervical screening clinic	6
Sexual and reproductive health experiences of adolescent girls and women in marginalised communities in Bangladesh	6
Men’s Achilles’ heel: prostate cancer and the reconstruction of masculinity	6
‘That decision really was mine…’. Insider perspectives on health care controversies about intersex/diverse sex development	6
‘It’s history in the making all around us’: examining COVID-19 through the lenses of HIV and epidemic history	6
Delivering PrEP to adults with “low” or “no” HIV risk and youth: experiences and perspectives of PrEP providers	6
Psychosocial approaches and discursive gaps in intersex healthcare: findings from an Israeli–German action research study	6
Normalising intolerance: the efforts of Christian Right groups to block LGBTIQ+ inclusion in South African schools	6
‘If she gets married when she is young, she will give birth to many kids’: a qualitative study of child marriage practices amongst nomadic pastoralist communities in Kenya	6
Marital sexual violence and conjugality in highlands Papua New Guinea	6
Perceptions matter: Narratives of contraceptive implant robbery in Cape Town, South Africa	6
Gay male pornography and the racialisation of desire	6

Negotiating sex work and client interactions in the context of a fentanyl-related overdose epidemic	6
‘Why aren’t you on PrEP? You’re a gay man’: reification of HIV ‘risk’ influences perception and behaviour of young sexual minority men and medical providers	6
Hispanic women’s perceptions of teenage sexting: qualitative analyses using a sexual scripting framework	6
Sex workers as peer researchers – a qualitative investigation of the benefits and challenges	6
Joining the tribe: adult circumcision among immigrant men in Israel and its traumatic aftermath	6
Regulating, fostering and preserving: the production of sexual normates through cognitive ableism and cognitive othering	5
Sexual and reproductive health challenges facing minority ethnic girls in Vietnam: a photovoice study	5
Business like any other? New Zealand’s brothel industry post-decriminalisation	5
Men’s needs and women’s fears: gender-related power dynamics in contraceptive use and coping with consequences in a rural setting in Kenya	5
Being dragged into adulthood? Young people’s agency concerning sex, relationships and marriage in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia	5
Sex life and sexuality among tongqi: doing gender and heterosexuality	5
The grey zone of collegiate sexual regret: questionable consent and sexual victimisation	5
The transformative effects of a participatory social empowerment intervention in the MAISHA intimate partner violence trial in Tanzania	5
From Hell to Heaven? Lived experiences of LGBTQ migrants in relation to health and their reflections on the future	5
Coping responses to intimate partner violence: narratives of women in North-west Tanzania	5
HIV testing attitudes and practices amongst 'wealthy men': qualitative evidence from Tanzania	5
Coping with the stress of providing mental health-related informal support to peers in an LGBTQ context	5
Selling sex: what determines rates and popularity? An analysis of 11,500 online profiles	5
Localocentricity, mental health and medical poverty in communication about sex work, HIV and AIDS among trans women engaged in sex work	5
COVID-19 and the shifting organisation of sex work markets in Singapore	5
Tracking trends of transgender health research online: are researchers and the public on the same page?	5
‘Test Now, Stop HIV’: COVID-19 and the idealisation of quarantine as the ‘end of HIV’	5
Factors associated with reproductive autonomy in Ghana	5
Adolescent girls’ perceived readiness for sex in Central Uganda - liminal transitions and implications for sexual and reproductive health interventions	5
Young people’s perceptions of young women’s engagement in sexting	5
‘Oh, I don’t really want to bother with that:’ gay and bisexual young men's perceptions of barriers to PrEP information and uptake	5
How to have sex in a pandemic: the development of strategies to prevent COVID-19 transmission in sexual encounters among gay and bisexual men in Australia	5
Practical justice as an innovative approach to addressing inequalities facing gender and sexually diverse people: a case example from Papua New Guinea	4
Understanding access to healthcare for gender diverse young people: a critical review of the literature	4
Young people with a variation in sex characteristics in Aotearoa/New Zealand: identity, activism and healthcare decision-making	4
A rapid review of Indigenous boys’ and men’s sexual health in Canada	4
Negotiating HIV and pregnancy prevention and sexual pleasure amongst heterosexual men and women in South Africa	4
Ethics and the treatment as prevention strategy among transgender women living with HIV in Argentina	4
The role of gender and romantic jealousy in intimate partner violence against women, a mixed-methods study in Northern Ecuador	4
Lifestyles, sexuality and gender: vulnerability to STIs and unplanned pregnancy among female migrant beer promoters in Lao PDR	4
Health services we can trust: how same-sex attracted men in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania would like their HIV healthcare to be organised	4
Adolescent boys and girls learning, reproducing, and resisting gender norms in Colombia and Uganda: a qualitative comparative study	4
Virality, desire and health assemblages: mapping (dis)continuities in the response to and management of HIV and COVID-19	4
Sexual healthcare experiences of nonbinary young adults	4
Messages around contraceptive use and implications in rural Malawi	4
Plurality of beliefs about female genital mutilation amidst decades of intervention programming in Narok and Kisii Counties, Kenya	4
‘Eventually I wanted something more’: sexual self-reflections of South African women engaged in transactional sexual relationships with blessers	4
A desirable future or unaffordable hope? Queer people becoming parents through assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Guangdong, China	4
Characterising the structure of the largest online commercial sex network in the UK: observational study with implications for STI prevention	4
“I want to become someone!” gender, reproduction and the moral career of motherhood for women with sickle cell disorders	4
Male sex workers’ (in)visible risky bodies in international health development: now you see them, now you don’t	4
Gay,ngochani,ordaa,gumuteteandmwana waEriza: ‘globalised’ and ‘localised’ identity labels among same-sex attracted men in Harare, Zimbabwe	4
The influence of cash transfers on engagement in transactional sex and partner choice among adolescent girls and young women in Northwest Tanzania	4
‘I love my job…it’s more the systems that we work in’: the challenges encountered by rural sexual and reproductive health practitioners and implications for access to care	4
An experimental philosophical bioethical study of how human rights are applied to clitorectomy on infants identified as female and as intersex	4
What constitutes a good healthcare experience for unintended pregnancy? A qualitative study among young people in California	4
Sex workers’ self-reported physical and mental health in Greece. A repeated cross-sectional study in 2009, 2013 and 2019	4
Intersectional stigma and coping strategies of single mothers living with HIV in Thailand	4
Women who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting’s perceptions and experiences with healthcare providers in Paris	4
Talking about sex with friends: perspectives of older adults from the Sex, Age & Me study in Australia	4
Mothers' perceptions of the medicalisation of female genital cutting among the Kisii population in Kenya	4
‘I have the confidence to ask’: thickening agency among adolescent girls in Karnataka, South India	4
Our relationships, our values, our culture - Aboriginal young men’s perspectives about sex, relationships and gender stereotypes in Australia	4
‘I never realised that sex between two women was not safe’: narratives of lesbian safer sex	4
‘I married when I was 16… due to poverty, I had no other way’: multi-level factors influencing HIV-related sexual risk behaviours among adolescent girls in Zambézia, Mozambique	4