Table 2. Showing search terms.

Concept	Search terms
STIs	‘Chlamydia’ OR ‘Gonorrhoea’ OR ‘Gonorrhoea’ ‘Syphilis’ OR ‘Human Papillomavirus’ OR ‘Herpes Simplex Virus’ OR ‘Trichomoniasis’ OR ‘Hepatitis B’ OR ‘Hepatitis C’ OR ‘Cytomegalovirus’ OR ‘Bacterial Vaginosis’ OR ‘Lymphogranuloma Venereum’ OR ‘Mycoplasma genitalium’ OR ‘Sexually transmitted infection*’ OR ‘Sexually transmitted*’ OR ‘Reproductive tract infection*’ OR ‘Genital infection*’ OR ‘Chlamydia trachomatis’ OR ‘Neisseria gonorrhoeae’ OR ‘Treponema pallidum’ OR ‘Trichomonas vaginalis’
Self-sample collection	‘Sampling’ OR ‘Sample’ OR ‘Self sampling’ OR ‘Self-sample’ OR ‘STI testing’ OR ‘STI diagnosis’ OR ‘Sexually transmitted infections test’ OR ‘Self-collect’ OR ‘Sexually transmitted disease testing’
Sexually active individuals	‘15 years and older’ OR ‘Male’ OR ‘Female’ OR ‘Non-binary’ OR ‘Transgender’ OR ‘Teens’ OR ‘Young adults’ OR ‘Emerging adults’ OR ‘Youth’ OR ‘young person’ OR ‘Adults’ OR ‘Middle-aged adults’ OR ‘Older adults’
Sub-Saharan Africa	‘Angola’ OR ‘Benin’ OR ‘Botswana’ OR ‘Burkina Faso’ OR ‘Burundi’ OR ‘Cameroon’ OR ‘Cape Verde’ OR ‘Central African Republic’ OR ‘CHAD’ OR ‘Comoros’ OR ‘Congo’ OR ‘Congo Democratic Republic’ OR ‘Djibouti’ OR ‘Equatorial Guinea’ OR ‘Eritrea’ OR ‘Ethiopia’ OR ‘Gabon’ OR ‘Gambia’ OR ‘Ghana’ OR ‘Guinea’ OR ‘Guinea-Bissau’ OR ‘Cote d'Ivoire’ OR ‘Ivory Coast’ OR ‘Kenya’ OR ‘Lesotho’ OR ‘Liberia’ OR ‘Madagascar’ OR ‘Malawi’ OR ‘Mali’ OR ‘Mozambique’ OR ‘Namibia’ OR ‘Niger’ OR ‘Nigeria’ OR ‘Sao Tome and Principe’ OR ‘Rwanda’ OR ‘Senegal’ OR ‘Seychelles’ OR ‘Sierra Leone’ OR ‘Somalia’ OR ‘South Africa’ OR ‘South Sudan’ OR ‘Sudan’ OR ‘Swaziland’ OR ‘Tanzania’ OR ‘Togo’ OR ‘Uganda’ OR ‘Zambia’ OR ‘Zimbabwe’ OR ‘Africa, South of the Sahara’ OR ‘sub-Saharan Africa’

STI, sexually transmitted infection.