(b).

Authors	Year	Country	Region	Study design	Setting	Sample size	Number of cases	Burden/10,000	Duration of study/months	Quality of study
El-moghrabi [47]	2019	Libya	Northern Africa	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	16,765	19	11.33	12	Medium
Estifanos [23]	2017	Eriteria	Eastern Africa	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	39,803	185	46.48	56	Medium
Forci et al. [46]	2021	Morocco	Northern Africa	Prospective	Hospital-based	43923	44	10.02	65	High
Gedamu et al. [33]	2021	Ethiopia	Eastern Africa	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	2,218	11	49.59	6	Medium
Gedefaw et al. [32]	2018	Ethiopia	Eastern Africa	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	8,677	126	145.21	7	Medium
Geneti et al. [9]	2021	Ethiopia	Eastern Africa	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	45951	186	40.47	60	High
Githuku et al. [24]	2014	Kenya	Eastern Africa	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	6041	1272	2105.61	72	High
Houcher et al. [55]	2008	Algeria	Northern Africa	Prospective	Hospital-based	28500	215	75.44	36	Medium
Kalisya et al. [64]	2015	DR Congo	Central Africa	Prospective	Hospital-based	1,301	48	368.95	156	Medium
Kayembe-Kitenge et al. [66]	2019	DR Congo	Central Africa	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	133662	146	10.92	24	High
Kindie and Mulu [34]	2022	Ethiopia	Eastern Africa	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	8,862	97	109.46	24	Medium
Kishimba et al. [25]	2015	Tanzania	Eastern Africa	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	28,217	27	10	5	High
Kromberg and Jenkins [58]	1982	South Africa	Southern Africa	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	29,633	35	11.81	12	Medium
Krzesinski et al. [59]	2019	South Africa	Southern Africa	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	93609	195	20.83	72	Low
Laamiri [48]	2017	Morocco	Northern Africa	Cross-sectional	Hospital-based	819,224	330	4.03	36	Medium