Figure 1.
Study flow.
Notes: The number of studies and the sample size contributed by 12 countries from SSA that had included studies were as follows: ten studies with 2,837 people with HIV/AIDS were from Ethiopia,18–27 four each were from Nigeria (2,042)28–31 and South Africa (13,929),32–35 and three were from Cameroon (2,246).11,36,37 Two each were from Uganda (245)38,39 and Zambia (471),40,41 one each was from Tanzania (175),42 Benin (521),43 Burkina Faso (112),44 Malawi (5,561),45 Kenya (846),46 and Gabon (205)47 (Table 1).
Abbreviations: EPTB, extrapulmonary TB; TB, tuberculosis.