Fig. 1From: 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 AfricaPRISMA 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 criteriaBack to article page