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. 2023 Jul 31;13(8):1670. doi: 10.3390/life13081670

Table 2.

Summary of prevalence reports of UGS by UM and hematuria in sub-Saharan Africa countries after 2018.

Countries Studies Subjects No. of Examined Positive Rate, % by Year of
Survey
Year of
Publish
References
UM MicH MacH
Angola Mapping SAC 31,938 12.6 2018-9 2022 [5]
Cross-sectional SAC 17,093 5.0 13.6 2022 [6]
Cross-sectional SAC 1283 61.2 65.7 17.1 2013-4 2015 [7]
Benin Mapping SAC 19,250 17.56 2013-5 2019 [8]
Burkina Faso Cross-sectional SAC 228 0 2021 [9]
Cameroon Cross-sectional Men 89 31.4 2022 [10]
Cross-sectional SAC 389 32.6 24.4 2018 2021 [11]
Cross-sectional Community residents 778 31.5 24.9 2018 2021 [12]
Cross-sectional Adults 509 18.7 16.5 2019 2021 [13]
Chad Cross-sectional SAC 11,832 100 55 2015-9 2022 [14]
Cross-sectional SAC + Ad 258 39.2 58.9 2019 2022 [15]
Côte d’Ivoire Cross-sectional SAC 170 20.6 2023 [16]
Cohort/ SAC + Ad 12,239 13.1 2015-9 2022 [17]
Cross-sectional Ad 901 1.0 2022 [18]
Ethiopia Cross-sectional SAC 1171 12.2 22.5 2022 [19]
Cross-sectional SAC 1288 31.6 32.1 2021-2 2022 [20]
Mapping SAC 15,133 0.13 2.8 2018-9 2022 [21]
Cross-sectional SAC + Ad 12,102 0.2 2.4 2022 [22]
Gabon Cross-sectional SAC 451 26.3 2021 [23]
Longitudinal SAC 328 43 2019 [24]
Longitudinal SAC 739 30.3 2012-4 2018 [25]
Gambia Cross-sectional SAC 2016 10.2 18.0 0.5 2015 2021 [26]
Mapping SAC 10,434 4.2 2014 2021 [27]
Ghana Cross-sectional SAC 336 12.8 2022 [28]
Cross-sectional SAC 520 6.5 2022 [29]
Cross-sectional SAC + Ad 114 22.8 2022 [30]
Cross-sectional SAC 309 10.4 2021 [31]
Cross-sectional SAC 469 21.1 2021 [32]
Cross-sectional SAC + PSAC 493 1.6 2021 [33]
Kenya Cross-sectional Women 534 3.8 2018 2022 [34]
Cross-sectional SAC + Ad 897 3.2 [35]
Cross-sectional Health center visitors 451 15.1 2018 2020 [36]
Madagascar Cross-sectional SAC 1958 30.5 2015 2016 [37]
Malawi Cross-sectional Fisherman 129 20.9 2022 [38]
Cross-sectional SAC 240 24.0 2019 2020 [39]
Mozambique Cross-sectional SAC 19,039 60.4 2011 2018 [40]
Niger Cross-sectional SAC + Ad 48,192 15.7 2011 2020 [41]
54,451 8.8 2015 2020 [41]
Nigeria Cross-sectional SAC 250 15.2 2023 [42]
Cross-sectional SAC 5514 7.1 2019 2022 [43]
Cross-sectional Pastoral community 34.2 2.5 2022 [44]
Cross-sectional SAC 279 67.4 29.7 2022 [45]
Cross-sectional SAC 777 1.7 11.6 2015-6 2022 [46]
Cross-sectional SAC + Ad 432 28.9 2020 2022 [47]
Cross-sectional SAC 487 34.1 2022 [48]
Cross-sectional SAC 1113 13.7 13.7 2021 [49]
Cross-sectional SAC 2023 10.4 2021 [50]
Cross-sectional SAC 466 19.1 2021 [51]
Cross-sectional SAC 400 49.2 83.0 2021 [52]
Cross-sectional SAC 400 17.3 22.0 2021 [53]
Cross-sectional SAC 251 65.3 2018 [54]
Senegal Cross-sectional Sac 821 66.7 2018 2021 [55]
Cross-sectional SAC
Ad
1285
300
54.2
32.0
2016-8 2020 [56]
South Africa Cohort SAC 1976 16.9 2007-8 2020 [57]
Cross-sectional SAC 970 32.2 2010 2020 [58]
South Sudan Cross-sectional SAC 13,286 3.7 2016-9 2022 [59]
Sudan Longitudinal SAC 9.1/35.2 2020 [60]
Mapping SAC 100,726 5.2 2016-7 2019 [61]
Tanzania Cross-sectional SAC + PSAC 20,389 7.4 9.3 0.3 2019 2022 [62]
Hospital Women 216 2.3 2021 2022 [63]
Cross-sectional SAC 396 5.8 2022 [64]
Cross-sectional SAC 649 52.7 46.2 13.1 2021 2022 [65]
Cross PSAC 385 16.9 17.9 6 2021 2022 [66]
Cross-sectional Adolescents 433 15.9 3.0 2022 [67]
Cross-sectional SAC 1288 31.6 32.1 2021-2 2022 [68]
Cross-sectional SAC 389 6.9 9.5 1.3 2022 [69]
Cross-sectional SAC+ PSAC 1560 0.83 0.9 2021 [70]
Cross-sectional Women RA 426 4.5 2019 2020 [71]
Mapping Population-based subjects 17,280 5.3 2006-7 2020 [72]
Cross-sectional SAC
Adult
39,207
18,155
5.4
2.7
6.5

2013-6 2018 [73]
Zambia Cross-sectional SAC 173 3.5 2022 [74]
Cross-sectional SAC 421 9.7 2022 [75]
Cross-sectional SAC 243,148 61 2020 [76]
Zimbabwe Cross-sectional PSAC 136 22.1 2022 [77]
Cross-sectional Pregnant women 4437 10.6 24.4 2021 [78]
Longitudinal PSAC 204 19.6 2019 2021 [79]
Cross-sectional SAC 361 26.8 2020 [80]
Cross-sectional SAC 12,656 17.6 2010-1 2020 [81]
Cross-sectional PSAC 416 35.1 2020 [82]

UGS = urogenital schistosomiasis, UM = urine microscopy, MicH = microhematuria, MacH = macrohematuria, SAC = school-aged children, Ad = adults, PSAC = school-aged children.