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Healthcare Access and Utilization Among Sexual and Gender Minority Migrants to Europe: A Systematic Review.

Sep 2026 · Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health · 0 citations · 25 references
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Barriers to healthcare access varied by domain: qualitative studies of general healthcare access reported legal insecurity, discrimination, language barriers, and limited culturally responsive, migrant-sensitive, and linguistically accessible services, whereas quantitative studies of HIV and sexual health services identified more specific, study-varying barriers such as low perceived risk and uneven testing or PrEP uptake.

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