The European Men-who-have-sex-with-men internet survey (EMIS): design and methods. Sex Res Soc Policy 2013;10:243–57

# The Author(s) 2013. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract Community-based opportunistic self-completion surveying for sexual health programming is common among men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) in Europe, being used to generate evidence of unmet prevention need, for behav-ioural surveillance and as a platform for advocating HIV precautions. However, comparing survey findings across Europe is difficult because of varying measures and recruit-ment designs, and surveying has not occurred in all coun-tries. EMIS (the European Men-who-have-sex-with-men Internet Survey) aimed to develop a pan-European Internet survey on HIV-related male homosexual behaviours and prevention needs both to increase research capacity and to move towards harmonisation of existing systems. Six asso-ciated partners (APs) recruited another 77 collaboratin