Table 1.

Descriptive summary of the 11 studies done on prevalence and risk factors of human leishmaniasis in Ethiopia

Authors	Year of publication	Sample size	Type of test	Region of the study	Study setting	Prevalence (95% CI)
Ali et al.	1993	730	rK39	SNNPR	Community	36.4 (10.91–61.89)
Negera et al.	2008	1907	rK39	SNNPR	Community	4.8 (− 13.54 to 23.14
Wondimeneh et al.	2014	7161	DAT	Amhara	Hospital	39.1 (− 41.84 to 120.04)
Bsrat et al.	2015	2106	rK39	Tigray	Community	14.0 (− 17.22 to 45.22)
Abera et al.	2016	289	rK39	Somali or Benshangul	Community	6.9 (− 1.56 to 15.36)
Bsrat et al.	2018	329	rK39	Tigray	Community	8.8 (− 1.28 to 18.88)
Tedla et al.	2018	26,511	rK39	Tigray	Hospital	8.4 (− 80.21 to 97.01)
Ayehu et al.	2018	185	rK39	Amhara	Community	7.6 (0.55–14.65)
Bekele et al.	2018	1682	rK39	SNNPR	Community	8.6 (− 13.96 to 31.16)
Alebie et al.	2019	361	rK39	Somali or Benshangul	Community	15.8 (2.22–29.38)
Yohannes et al.	2019	9622	Clinical	Tigray	Community	2.3 (− 26.50 to 31.10)