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From: A review of prospective pathways and impacts of COVID-19 on the accessibility, safety, quality, and affordability of essential medicines and vaccines for universal health coverage in Africa

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PRISMA flowchart illustrating eligibility assessment of studies reporting data relevant for the assessment and management of the prospective pathways and impacts of COVID-19 on the accessibility, safety, quality, and affordability of essential medicines and vaccines for universal health coverage in Africa. Our search strategy yielded the following numbers of records per database/source (data are shown as: [records for module 1]/[records for module 2] [name of database/source]): 85/1 LitCovid, 115/51 Scopus, 52/24 MEDLINE (OVID), 7/4 CINAHL (EBSCO), 27/22 Web of Science Core Collection, 5/0 African Index Medicus, 2/1 Cochrane Library, and 54/31 other sources. Evidence gathering was done from April 22 to October 2, 2020. The sum of titles and abstracts excluded by each reason > total titles and abstracts excluded. This is because titles and abstracts were excluded by not meeting several eligibility criteria

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