| COVID-19 | Coronavirus Disease 2019 |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses |
| PRISMA-ScR | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews |
| ICPD | International Conference on Population and Development |
| STI | Sexually Transmitted Infections |
| AACODS | Authority, Accuracy, Coverage, Objectivity, Date, and Significance |
| OSF | Open Science Framework |
| PCC | Population, Concept, and Context |
| Embase | Excerpta Medica database |
| CINAHL | Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature |
| WOS | Web of Science |
| AJOL | Africa Journals Online |
| SARC | Short-Acting Reversible Contraception |
| MSM | Men who have sex with Men |
| MMR | Measles-mumps-rubella |
| IBD | Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
| PPE | Personal Protective Equipment |
| HIV | Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
| CAS | Condom-less Anal Sex |
| FSFI | Female Sexual; Function Index |
| LMICs | Low-Middle-Income Countries |
| HICs | High Income Countries; PrEP: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis |