Decriminalization and medical students attitudes to same sex behaviour

Neglected gaps in improving the health, wellbeing, and care for sexual and gender minority young people living in low- and lower-middle- income countries: a scoping review

“…The 79 included papers drew primarily from data collected in East Asia and the Pacific ( n = 28, 35.44%) [ 23 , 24 , 33 , 35 , 39 , 45 , 46 , 51 , 52 , 58 – 62 , 68 , 70 , 72 , 75 – 84 ], Sub-Saharan Africa ( n = 25, 31.65%) [ 26 – 31 , 38 , 41 , 43 , 44 , 50 , 63 , 66 , 71 , 85 – 95 ], and South Asia ( n = 20, 25.32%) [ 25 , 32 , 34 , 40 , 42 , 49 , 53 , 54 , 54 , 56 , 57 , 64 , 65 , 69 , 73 , 74 , 96 – 99 ] (see Fig. 2 ).…”

“…Only three publications drew from studies conducted in low-income countries, all in Uganda [ 48 , 86 , 88 ]. Seventy-three papers described studies conducted, at least in part, in lower-middle-income countries, with the most from India ( n = 12, 15.19%) [ 32 , 34 , 40 , 49 , 53 , 56 , 64 , 65 , 74 , 97 – 99 ], the Philippines ( n = 10, 12.66%) [ 23 , 35 , 58 – 62 , 68 , 75 , 81 ], and Vietnam ( n = 10, 12.66%) [ 24 , 33 , 39 , 46 , 67 , 70 , 72 , 77 , 82 , 84 ]. Three papers were global in scope [ 16 , 55 , 100 ].…”

“…Almost half of the papers ( n = 37, 46.84%) were cross-sectional studies [ 23 – 27 , 34 – 36 , 38 , 43 , 47 , 49 , 53 , 58 , 59 , 61 , 62 , 64 , 67 , 72 , 75 – 77 , 79 – 82 , 85 – 91 , 97 , 99 , 101 ] (see Table 1 ). An additional twenty-three publications (29.11%) employed qualitative designs [ 30 , 33 , 37 , 40 – 42 , 45 , 48 , 50 , 52 , 54 , 56 , 57 , 60 , 66 , 69 – 71 , 73 , 78 , 92 – 94 ], five (6.33%) were mixed methods [ 28 , 29 , 46 , 68 , 83 ], four used a pre-post design (5.06%) [ 84 , 95 , 96 , 98 ], and two (2.53%) were case studies [ 32 , 63 ].…”

“…Less than half of the papers ( n = 35, 44.30%) exclusively recruited or focused on young people ages 10–24 or any subset of the 10–24 age range [ 26 , 28 , 30 , 35 , 38 , 39 , 41 , 43 , 45 – 47 , 50 , 52 , 57 , 58 , 60 , 61 , 66 – 69 , 71 , 74 , 75 , 79 – 83 , 89 , 93 , 94 , 96 , 98 , 99 ]. Twenty-six additional papers (32.91%) had a sample that was made up of majority young people (as determined by mean, median, or majority criteria) [ 23 – 25 , 27 , 29 , 36 , 44 , 49 , 53 , 56 , 59 , 62 , 64 , 70 , 72 , 76 , 77 , 84 – 88 , 90 , 92 , 95 , 97 ]. Within these twenty-six papers, age-disaggregated data for any subset of the 10–24 adolescent age band was reported in only five (6.33%) and the reported age groupings varied [ 27 , 53 , 77 , 85 , 92 ].…”

Attitude towards people with same gender attraction among Medical students: A cross-sectional study in Southern part of India

“…Also in September 2021 high court of Kerala advised Indian National Medical Commission to revise on using derogatory words against sexual minorities in their academics. Even however Indian medical curriculum regarding sexual minorities rights and their health remains the same and very much needs to be updated to current scenario (Kar et al, 2022).…”