The authors regret to inform that, due to an unintentional and unfortunate error, two of co-authors, Axel J. Schmidt and Kai Jonas, were not included in the authorship list in the published paper (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.106962). We regret that we did not catch this error earlier. The updated authorship is as above. On the other hand, in the paper we have used the term “GBMSM” for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men while EMIS-2017 sampled men who have sex with men (MSM) regardless of their sexual identity. In EMIS outputs, GBMSM typically refers to the sub-sample of MSM with a gay or bisexual identity. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.